Rick Nash potentially available
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Mikhail Bloodnovsky
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Zee said:
There is a reason why MacLean is not working for an NHL team right now.
Zee
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Chazz-Micheal Liles said:
LOL, he's so desperate to pump up Nash cause it's his one and only claim to fame. "I drafted him!" It would be hilarious if Nash goes to some other team and still middles around being a 60 point guy as opposed to the supposed franchise player that MacLean keeps saying he is.
Zee
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RedLeaf said:
I would like to see him on the Leafs as well but at the right price. Why do I have this sinking feeling that the Leafs go all out to get Nash, throw in a huge package of prospects, and then he never reaches the heights we expect? I hope Burke remains level headed and hangs on to the few bright spots we have (Gardiner most notably)
groundskeeper willie
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Bender said:
They have three expensive players, four mid-range players, and the rest of the roster is making peanuts. They just found the right guys willing to play for peanuts so they can be good I guess. Well, that and Lundqvist.
Glen Sather is like a drug addict. Like a sex fiend.
He CANNOT help himself... literally... he has an addiction.
From Fleury, to Lindros, to Kasparaitis, to Bure, to Jagr, to Holik, to Drury, to Gomez, to Gaborik, to Richards, now he will probably get Nash or Brown (if not both!).
He can not be stopped! It doesn't matter who or what, he gets giddy and makes the move. It's pretty crazy.
He CANNOT help himself... literally... he has an addiction.
From Fleury, to Lindros, to Kasparaitis, to Bure, to Jagr, to Holik, to Drury, to Gomez, to Gaborik, to Richards, now he will probably get Nash or Brown (if not both!).
He can not be stopped! It doesn't matter who or what, he gets giddy and makes the move. It's pretty crazy.
Corn Flake
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Erndog said:
Yeah but he has a team in 1st place in the East by a country mile. As much as we like to mock him, you can't mock his team right now.
The Flyers are a close second though and I know how they do it - incredible drafting, and they obtain picks as often as they trade them away.
Corn Flake
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Zee said:
Well that is quite true......... but might be for almost any team in the East though, except Montreal.
bustaheims
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Corn Flake said:
In the past 4 years, their first pick has come before the 3rd round all of twice, and only one of those selections is still part of the organization.
I'm not sure I'd hold their drafting to such high esteem either. Outside of the guys who are already on their roster, their farm system is pretty barren.
Corn Flake
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bustaheims said:
Thanks for the correction...... again..... . 5 of the last 7 they have had a 1st round pick and only 3 times in the last decade have they not. For a team that trades them away as much as they do, that's pretty interesting.
Redleaf
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The questions I have are..
Does Rick Nash, along with better goaltending, help us this year in our fight for a playoff berth?
I say absolutely.
Does Rick Nash fit into Burke's blueprint as a player that will be around for 3 or 4 years as he fast tracks this rebuild?
I say absolutely.
Will the pieces needed to make this trade gut the future of the Leafs enough to disrupt or derail the rebuild?
I say nobody really knows for sure at this point. But I have to say I'd be willing to part with some important peices to make this deal work. If a trade can be made without parting with Gardiner or Kessel, I'd probably do it.
Does Rick Nash, along with better goaltending, help us this year in our fight for a playoff berth?
I say absolutely.
Does Rick Nash fit into Burke's blueprint as a player that will be around for 3 or 4 years as he fast tracks this rebuild?
I say absolutely.
Will the pieces needed to make this trade gut the future of the Leafs enough to disrupt or derail the rebuild?
I say nobody really knows for sure at this point. But I have to say I'd be willing to part with some important peices to make this deal work. If a trade can be made without parting with Gardiner or Kessel, I'd probably do it.
bustaheims
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Corn Flake said:
Yeah, they had done well with it until recently, and, well, the depth of their system really shows the strain of that approach. There's not much there that isn't already on their NHL roster.
Corn Flake
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bustaheims said:
Fair, but what always gets me with the Flyers is how they manage to have the bullets to pull of huge deals and somehow turn around and at least what has felt like they pick star players every single year. The draft record isn't quite as flattering as my memory of it is, but if you can pull a Girioux with the 22nd pick in a so-so draft, you can build a rep that way.
Maybe they are finally out of bullets unless they sacrifice Couturier or Van Reimsdyk.
bustaheims said:
But honestly, who cares about that?
It's like the Tampa Bay Rays. Everyone loved their prospect system for years... they developed quite a few, and many of them made it... then some people started saying "well they don't have a great system anymore." WELL OBVIOUSLY! They all graduated!
The Flyers have Giroux, Read, Couturier, Schenn, Simmonds, and JVR all 24 or younger. I mean... come on. You can forgive them if they dont have anything coming up the pipeline in a year considering they have 6 of them currently on their NHL roster with a high watermark for their ceiling.