Rebel_1812 said:
I don't know why everyone here wants to keep lupul. Sure he plays well when heathly, but he is never healthy. Best to trade him now when you can get a return and free up some cap space. We have plenty of wingers.
Assuming we want to mimic the two time winning champs the Hawks, we should probably keep him.
They have 3 great wingers (Hossa, Sharp, Kane) we have (Kessel, Lupul, JVR). They have 2 great dmen (Seabrook, Keith) we have (Phaneuf, ?). They have a great center in Toews and hopefully Kadri keeps developing into something 80-90% as good as that. Also our goalies are better in my opinion.
So let's say we trade Lupul to get that question mark beside Phaneuf... then who steps up for that winger position?
This is just assuming we want a close as possible carbon copy.