jaymcfly

the rolston deal doesnt matter anyway cause minnys going to make the playoffs this year and like someone else said if the wings are going to pull players from the wild demitra would be a better choice than rolston. someone a little more realistic may be dumont from nashville. hes 29, has pretty good size, and can put the puck in the net. plus nashville is most likely going to be out of the race this year after their talent dumping.

I'll come back to this one.

now that samsonov's gone i guess the habs fans needed someone new to boo

penner may be worth the gamble from a money standpoint (especially considering the 4mil they dropped on bert) but for the ducks it was much more than just one player and one large salary. they have to sign up perry and getzlaf next year who are both younger than penner and arguably more talented (penner did have more points than perry this year though). also they have to resign kunitz next year as well. all three of them are potentially core players and will be looking at pretty big raises. all three of them would certainly like to use penner's salary as a reference so the ducks can't show that they're willing to pay that. no win for the ducks.

i wouldnt want to give up anything to get fedorov and forsberg is a better all around player, hopefully neither of them come though if there are other options

you forgot drake

West Detroit Anaheim Vancouver San Jose Colorado Calgary Dallas Minnesota East NY Rangers Ottawa Atlanta Pittsburgh Buffalo New Jersey Tampa Bay Toronto swing and a miss for philly despite forking out the cash. what team do you think is going to be the bottom in each conference? i go with phoenix and boston.

yeah i think even with this, hockey is looking pretty good right now, no dogfighting, no big steroid busts or targets, no official gambling scandals, now we just need to get people to watch

nope, i think you answered your own question, if we're not going to give cleary and the kids a shot at second line minutes then thats where the need at forward is, peca would be overpriced for an additional undersized defensive forward playing on the third or fourth line when the money should be going towards another d man or extra scoring punch if its going to be spent

all depending on who the wings bring back, but id like to see hartnell and pyatt and then preissing and sarich, those are my top realistic free agent signings, and then of course backstrom (probably not possible though) if hasek retires

i wouldnt say that smyth and homer are the same player, smyth is a great player and any team would love to have him, he is going to get top dollar this summer though and holland cant go out and make a multiyear deal on a large contract since zetterbergs will be up in two years, furthermore we need right wingers and a center (if babs keeps zetterberg and datsyuk on the same line) not more left wingers, almost everyone on the team is left handed, bert is the best immediate choice and then we should look at hartnell who would be a great fit and the price should be reasonable

^ yeah i agree, if we are able to bring scheids markov hasek and bert back i dont think we need to make a major splash plus we wont have the money to do so if we tie all them up, there are some good lower cost players out there we could add just to tweak like pyatt or barnes, i think smyths going to go for more than 3.5-4 so i think hes off the wings radar if we keep bert

^ my thoughts as well, i would love to have hasek back and he is definitely plan a but if hes not sure by july 1 then we need to move on to plan b and not getting stuck on plan a1/2, there arent too many options out there if hasek doesnt come back so holland needs time to get something together and make offers and/or trades

obviously it cant be a one for one replacement, kronwall and lebda and then whoever is brought in would have to share the offensive weight, schneider does a lot for this team and he is certainly an integral part of the pp but if he leaves its not the end of the world, there are some younger dman available that could share the weight or timonen stuart preissing and hamrlik are all available this summer, any of them could run the point

he's still going to be asking upwards of 4 million for sure which is too much