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Surely Green will fetch more than this?

Just some tidbits to help speculation!

it has to be just precautionary for the deadline. He probably tweaked something and they aren't taking ANY chances on losing that 4th and 5th round pick in 2099!

Here is a snipit from Eklunds page...ya, ya its Eklund, but we have to have some rumors to talk about!

I hope Holland has some crazy s*** up his sleeve too, this trade was whacky! Come On Kenny, kick those tires all the way back to Akron!

Absolutely not, but it would be nice to trade about 4 more players for more picks/prospects, but if we don't, meh...I'm sure we'll hear all the one liners why we didn't even trade 2 more.

We are all getting hopeful for Monday, but I have a feeling this will be Holland and his staff come 3PM

Howard is not better than Mrazek. They both have their inconsistencies. Actually Howard is consistent, consistent at sucking after the All-Star break. Its just he is grossly overpaid and has another year on his contract so it would've been harder to trade. Plus Petr pissed in Holland's Wal-Mart brand Oatsie Rings so he was getting the ax before Jimmy anyhow. I still hope that Howard is gone before next year as well! Not unless the plan is, Petr steps it up, takes Philly to the ECF, we get the 2nd and the 2019 pick, Hextall doesn't qualify him, we dump Jimmy for a couple of pieces of burnt bacon, then sign Mrazek to a nice deal.....no?

I'm thinking it were that obvious that he was doing so, it would be illegal per CBA and NHL Rules. That is almost like circumventing the Cap in order to screw other teams. First of all, I am not sure if there is even a "cutting" process with the CB Rules and contracts. I guess he could waive him, but that would still be a glaring circumvention of the trade agreement and probably would be a hefty fine involved, maybe even trading privileges revoke for a period of time. Plus not only would Hextall screw his relationship with Holland, there are 29 other GM's that would take notice of that act and also refrain from dealing with him. If there are actual "fans" saying they actually think he would do that, then they don't know crap about the business aspect of sports and probably barely anything about the sport itself. These are the fans that get up and scream at the TV when the plays goes offside asking WTF did they blow the whistle for!?!?! ...will we draft a LH'd or RH'd Pitcher or go with a Short Stop?

In the final picture, it is nice to get something for the guy when he was going to leave UFA after not being qualified, but ya, before we had to settle for that result, the problem should have been addressed a long time ago. IMO, they should've traded Jimmy 2 seasons ago, but instead they handled the situation like bumbling idiots. Remember back when Hasek retired, we signed CuJo, then Hasek came back and that screwed everything up! What should've been a great experience for CuJo and us fans, turned out to be probably the worst experience CuJo could've had in his career! I mean we had him playing in the minors for pete's sake! I'm sure relations between those two became just as dicey as the relationship between Mrazek and Howard.

Dang I thought it was going to fire up today! Sure felt like it for a minute there! Oh well!

...wait GM's don't trade 5 or 6 roster players, right?

Top Jimmy to CAL for the Tank? Treliving isn’t a fan of rentals, giving up prospects they’ve tried to develop, and the few draft picks that they have. Flames sources don’t think Smith’s return is imminent, though Treliving remains optimistic.

Uh oh...

Hey looked it worked again! at least this time! Trying again to see if I got it to work! YAAAAAAA!!!!!

crud, thats what I do, not working correctly for me....oh well!

http://mynhltraderumors.com/nhl-rumors-toronto-maple-leafs-matt-martin-new-york-islanders/2018/02/23/ Would you trade disney.com for Matt Martin? BTW, what are you copying to paste the tweet that way? I cannot get it to work...

You may be on to something. I know its Eklund, but he seems to be under the impression that the two are linked and will happen together...again, its Eklund, so....still its great to be having some rumors!

TSN's Trade Bait Board The Top 45 Trend Player Pos Age Cap Hit GP G PTS Years Clause 1. Erik Karlsson, OTT RD 27 $6.5M 54 5 42 1 M-NTC 2. Rick Nash, NYR LW 33 $7.8M 60 18 28 UFA M-NTC 3. Mike Green, DET RD 32 $6M 57 6 29 UFA NTC 4. Derick Brassard, OTT C 30 $5M 58 18 36 1 M-NTC 5. Patrick Maroon, EDM LW 29 $1.5M 57 14 30 UFA 6. Evander Kane, BUF LW 26 $5.25M 61 20 40 UFA 7. Mark Letestu, EDM C 33 $1.8M 58 8 19 UFA 8. Mike Hoffman, OTT LW 28 $5.19M 60 16 39 2 M-NTC 9. Ryan McDonagh, NYR LD 28 $4.7M 49 2 26 1 M-NTC 10. Mats Zuccarello, NYR RW 30 $4.5M 60 10 43 1 11. Zack Smith, OTT C/LW 29 $3.25M 46 5 17 3 M-NTC 12. Tomas Plekanec, MTL C 35 $6M 60 6 24 UFA 13. Thomas Vanek, VAN LW 33 $2M 60 16 40 UFA 14. Max Domi, ARI C/LW 22 $1.36M 60 4 26 RFA 15. Jack Johnson, CBJ LD 31 $4.35M 60 3 8 UFA 16. Derek Ryan, CAR C 31 $1.45M 58 11 26 UFA 17. Max Pacioretty, MTL LW 29 $4.5M 60 16 35 1 18. Jeff Skinner, CAR LW 25 $5.73M 60 20 37 1 NMC 19. Alex Galchenyuk, MTL LW 23 $4.9M 60 12 34 2 20. J-G Pageau, OTT C 25 $3.1M 56 8 20 4 21. Luke Glendening, DET C 28 $1.8M 48 8 14 3 22. Ryan Hartman, CHI RW 23 $863K 55 8 24 RFA 23. Boone Jenner, CBJ C 24 $2.9M 53 5 17 RFA 24. Andrew Shaw, MTL C/RW 26 $3.9M 43 10 19 4 25. Jordan Kyrou, STL C/RW 19 $894K 0 0 0 3 Slide 26. Robby Fabbri, STL LW 22 $1.1M 0 0 0 RFA 27. Johnny Oduya, OTT LD 36 $2M 51 4 8 UFA M-NTC 28. Gustav Nyquist, DET RW 28 $4.75M 60 16 28 1 NTC 29. Aaron Dell, SJS G 28 $625K 25 2.71 .912 UFA 30. Jon Gillies, CGY G 24 $725K 2 4.35 .815 RFA 31. Bobby Ryan, OTT LW 30 $7.25M 40 7 21 4 M-NTC 32. Matt Hunwick, PIT LD 32 $2.25M 35 3 7 2 33. Benoit Pouliot, BUF LW 31 $1.15M 56 11 15 UFA 34. Josh Leivo, TOR LW 24 $613K 12 1 3 1 35. Tommy Wingels, CHI RW 29 $750K 54 7 12 UFA 36. Tomas Tatar, DET LW 27 $5.3M 59 16 27 3 37. Blake Comeau, COL RW 31 $2.4M 56 10 22 UFA 38. Ben Hutton, VAN LD 24 $2.8M 50 0 6 1 39. Matt Cullen, MIN C 41 $1.7M 58 6 15 UFA 40. Nic Petan, WPG C 22 $863K 12 1 1 RFA 41. Robin Lehner, BUF G 26 $4M 45 2.92 .911 RFA 42. Mike Cammalleri, EDM RW 35 $1M 52 5 22 UFA 43. Xavier Ouellet, DET LD 24 $1.25M 36 0 4 1 44. Danny DeKeyser, DET LD 27 $5M 43 4 7 4 NTC 45. Tyson Barrie, COL RD 26 $5.5M 46 6 36 2

If this is what they're talking for a return for McDonagh, then why are we talking that we should just expect 1 asset or a couple of lower round picks for Green? Green has 3 more points than McDonagh with the difference being McDonagh has one more year on his contract. So we don't get three or four pieces, but two for sure, starting with a 1st should not be a question.

Reading on various Twitter accounts that OTT is flipping Cole back to the Metropolitan division. No teams named...

Quite a haul for Brassard. NHL Player, prospect AND a 1st round pick in 2018? Nice! Nyquist and Tatar have 10 and 11 points less, wonder what we could get now? I sure hope someone is interested! I know O and D are complete different apples, but could this bode well for the return on Mike Green?

https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/967123628696338432 WTF? I cannot get these tweets to show up properly!!!

Here is a nice read. https://www.detroithockey.net/news/2018/02/23/final-thoughts-on-petr-mrazek/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter