Yup, all hall of famers down the road and like every cup team they got the Norris trophy type dman + Seabrook whose a beast.KeyserSoze wrote:True...and this is much easier to do when those couple of core guys are named Toews, Kane, and Keith.Diehard1 wrote: Chicago gets it - don't fall in love with their players, keep a couple of core guys and the rest are expendable.
Anyways I think the Canucks should be bold enough to trade expensive vets like the Hawks did with Ladd/Buff etc.
Ladd=Burrows, Buff=Bieksa.
Sign Vrbata for retirement contract for cheaper cap hit. (Hossa)
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- For Ladd hawks received a 2nd (Clendening) + prospect (Ivan Vishnevskiy)
- Buff was part of a huge cap dump trade:
Chicago Blackhawks traded Dustin Byfuglien, Ben Eager, Brent Sopel and Akim Aliu to the Atlanta Thrashers for Marty Reasoner, Jeremy Morin, Joey Crabb, a 1st and a 2nd round selection in 2010.
- Troy Brouwer for a 1st rounder.
Hawks seem to always have a nice balance of trading expensive vets for picks and down the line for their Cup runs they trade picks for players, or they move up or down the draft with all the picks they get from vets.