Trade rumours & armchair pipe dreams 19-20 Sponsored by SKYO

[Strangelove]

As for Loui - it's a lot more money, so for him to leave 12 million on the table is less likely to happen.

Well in reality Loui would be walking away from $4M ($5M real bucks - 20% escrow = $4M)

... but I agree with you.

Trade Loui with a sweetener to somewhere like Ottawa or Detroit.

He is an NHLer (a soft bottom 6 forward/penalty-killer on a rebuilding team) .

[ESQ]

I think he’d be nuts to leave 3.15 million on the table. I don’t see him getting much more than a tryout with another team. I don’t think he’d make anywhere close to that in Europe. He’s better off coming to camp and trying to make the Canucks and no matter if he makes the team, or goes to the AHL if they have season, or gets loaned out to a team in Europe, he gets his cake. Him terminating is some wishful thinking, same for Louis. The players hold all the cards due to the fact there’s a good chance there’s no AHL season and the Canucks would lose any leverage they had.

Fair points, but a few details that I just learned:

His cash owed for next year is $2.4 million, his contract was slightly front-loaded. Minus 20% for escrow, that's $1.92 mil.

If he terminates, and signs in, say, the hometown Swiss league, he could make up to $500k - with his pedigree, plus the fact that he woudn't take up an Int'l roster slot, he might get top dollar. Then, he could earn most of that salary before NHL reg season begins (assuming its Jan 1, that's after 3 full months of Swiss league play).

So, he could either terminate and go earn $500 k with an out-clause to come back to the NHL (the roster cut-off for UFAs from Europe is usually early-December, so this year would be...early-March?). Or, he could finish the year in Switzerland (playoffs end in April), and be ready to go for a job in 21/22.

[Chef Boi RD]

Baertschi’s career is in the balance. Concussions. I don’t think he’d leave any money at all on the table. He has a young family. Lives in Portland next door Oldster Hipster - Jim Benning. They run in to each other buying used paperback novels at Powell’s Books

[Strangelove]

Portland has become Anarchy Central, no doubt Baer would now push to go home to where the hills are alive with the sound of music.

(if he didn't have to walk away from all that cashola)

Last year he had his young family join him in Utica for the season.

[Todd Bersnoozi]

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/n ... 1600214827

Speculation of:

Brockstar
for
Dumba

Dumba checks alot of boxes for a D-man that we need in a RS, good 2-way guy, he's just a bit on the small side for my liking. I dunno; I didn't think he was anything special when we played him in the playoffs.

[rats19]

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/n ... 1600214827

Speculation of:

Brockstar
for
Dumba

Dumba checks alot of boxes for a D-man that we need in a RS, good 2-way guy, he's just a bit on the small side for my liking. I dunno; I didn't think he was anything special when we played him in the playoffs.

Fuck him

[Madcombinepilot]

I wouldn’t mind a player like Dumba, just not Dumba.

I don’t want a guy with a political or racial agenda on the team.

I want a guy with a winning agenda on the team.

[rats19]

I wouldn’t mind a player like Dumba, just not Dumba.

I don’t want a guy with a political or racial agenda on the team.

I want a guy with a winning agenda on the team.

And bigger

[Mickey107]

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/n ... 1600214827

Speculation of:

Brockstar
for
Dumba

Dumba checks alot of boxes for a D-man that we need in a RS, good 2-way guy, he's just a bit on the small side for my liking. I dunno; I didn't think he was anything special when we played him in the playoffs.

viewtopic.php?p=397122#p397122 ..He wasn't.. 6 million per for three more years then UFA. Boeser is still an RFA when his contract expires in two. Not saying Brock would be a player moved if necessary when Hughes and Pettersson are due, but, ..............It's going to be tough to add through the trade route. JB said in his interview that having our young players step up from within our own organisation would be the desired route.

[SKYO]

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/n ... 1600214827

Speculation of:

Brockstar
for
Dumba

Dumba checks alot of boxes for a D-man that we need in a RS, good 2-way guy, he's just a bit on the small side for my liking. I dunno; I didn't think he was anything special when we played him in the playoffs.

Whats cool is Bieksa is a fan of Dumba, saying the same, he's not the biggest guy, but he plays like he's bigger.

Juice: "I like Dumba. He’s a smaller guy but plays like he’s a lot bigger. He’ll fight to stick up for teammates. He could be great for the Canucks"

[SKYO]

I know we need dmen.

But if an opportunity to snag a Pavel Buchnevich because the NYR are drafting Lefreniere, then by god we should at least look into it.

One player that in particular makes more sense now to trade with Lafreniere joining the team is Pavel Buchnevich. He is a talented forward but is too similar in style to Kaapo Kakko and Vitali Kravtsov who are projected to be top six wingers.

What if they trade Buchnevich and a pick to land a top left defenseman to pair with Jacob Trouba? Or maybe look at a trade for RFA, Josh Anderson in Columbus. The bottom line is the Rangers now have a lot of options.

https://www.foreverblueshirts.com/range ... more-news/

Rathbone or Juolevi?

25yrs, Buchnevich LW/RW 6'3 - 200lbs.

Can see him beside Horvat, pushing Pearson to the 3rd line while Ferland is on LTIR.
Also he can be a rusky mentor for Podkolzin when he arrives for the 2021 season.

[Blob Mckenzie]

I know we need dmen.

But if an opportunity to snag a Pavel Buchnevich because the NYR are drafting Lefreniere, then by god we should at least look into it.

One player that in particular makes more sense now to trade with Lafreniere joining the team is Pavel Buchnevich. He is a talented forward but is too similar in style to Kaapo Kakko and Vitali Kravtsov who are projected to be top six wingers.

What if they trade Buchnevich and a pick to land a top left defenseman to pair with Jacob Trouba? Or maybe look at a trade for RFA, Josh Anderson in Columbus. The bottom line is the Rangers now have a lot of options.

https://www.foreverblueshirts.com/range ... more-news/

Rathbone or Juolevi?

That oughta be more than enough.

[Meds]

I know we need dmen.

But if an opportunity to snag a Pavel Buchnevich because the NYR are drafting Lefreniere, then by god we should at least look into it.

One player that in particular makes more sense now to trade with Lafreniere joining the team is Pavel Buchnevich. He is a talented forward but is too similar in style to Kaapo Kakko and Vitali Kravtsov who are projected to be top six wingers.

What if they trade Buchnevich and a pick to land a top left defenseman to pair with Jacob Trouba? Or maybe look at a trade for RFA, Josh Anderson in Columbus. The bottom line is the Rangers now have a lot of options.

https://www.foreverblueshirts.com/range ... more-news/

Rathbone or Juolevi?

That oughta be more than enough.

Yeah.....not sure how he went from the description of "a top" guy to Rathbone or Juolevi.

[SKYO]

it's a starting point guys.

[Meds]

it's a starting point guys.

Does that apply to all of your trade proposals? Because if so I'll have to re-evaluate my quick dismissals of them as childish.....just conversation starters.

That being said, if I were in Jeff Gorton's shoes and I answered my phone to hear Jim Benning offer me Rathbone or Juolevi for a 20 goal, 55 point winger, I think I'd start by just hanging up on him and then blocking his future calls.