nyqvististhefuture

there are some good pieces that have potential at being something real good i definetly wouldnt trade mrazek,jurco,jarnkrok

k cool, lets get old and let our players lose what value they have left.

are you serious??? mike green gets a cuncussion like every year and cant play defense and mueller also gets a cuncussion like every season those arent the types of players we need

didnt prust not play alot in nashville?? and was healthy scratch for games ? i dont know we needed grit and toughness but he's 5'9 LOL  you think guys like scott thornton wont laugh in his face?

would rather of got brandon prust but i dont think he'd have come here anyways . his girlfriend is from montreal so i dont think anyone but the rangers had a chance at prust

If I was Parise and wanted to win a Stanley Cup, where would I go?

Pittsburgh has Crosby and Malkin.  That top line would be a killer.  On top of that, I have a cup winning goalie on the back end, and a solid defensive core.

Seems like a very easy decision.  Pittsburgh is much closer to a stanley cup right now than Detroit is.

you forgot to add pittsburgh has bettman

Where the hell is all this Parise hate coming from? Because Pitt.-based talking heads are playing up the Crosby friendship angle we should all just start hating Parise?

if he joins pittsburgh the hates valid in my eyes lol if he doesnt come here but goes anywhere but pittsburgh i wouldnt care

this is all for show everybody knows after crosby  banged parise and his whole family at game 3 of the finals he's going to pittsburgh .... F him


if we get suter  trade quincey.abdelkader and unfortunetly nyquist  for bobby ryan , hes got a more cap friendly hit than nash and less term

id rather have taken a chance and just signed semin to 2 yrs 10 million ( if that were possible)

next thing you know lilja will be back .... theres a problem with always getting back players that were here , they age and retire and when that happens you become the calgary flames because you have no one left on your team thats good and youngish

i just wanted to say i hope redwings fans arent pissed at holland if suter and parise go elsewhere and we see carle and garrisson etc signing elsewhere for ridiculous contracts like 5 million + a season

I'd rater we dont go crazy for these guys and spend wisely and keep some money for shea weber next year and whoever else will be available

July 1 can be a pretty crazy day where alot of stupid gm's overspend on mediocre talent and as much crap as kenny gets here from some fans i know hes not stupid and i wont for example sign garrisson to like 5 years for 25 million like some idiot probably will


that being said lets hope we get suter and some grit like prust at least , everyone enjoy july 1st

Just consider this:

Dan Cleary is aging and has a 2.8mill contract with one season left on it. Would it be valuable to sell him now while we can get decent assets for him rather than lose him in free agency next season? If we are re-signing our youth and blowing money on UFAs this season we could use the 2.8 mill elsewhere rather than the 4th line. Furthermore, Eaves has a hefty 1.2mill contract and if he doesn't play every night he isn't worth keeping around when we could get a decent pick for him.  Bertuzzi we are almost stuck with unless waived because he has a NMC i believe. Obviously Emmerton and Mursak are less valuable than these guys but that makes them ideal 13/14 guys that come cheap and know our system, I'd move a bigger contract to make room for future.

if it was up to me cleary and/or bertuzzi wouldnt be back and replaced with guys like prust ,doan etc..

unfortunetly ken holland is overly loyal ... bertuzzi never should of been resigned to 2 yrs especially now that hes 37

Nope.  Sorry.  If you want to get big boy money you should have to have big boy production.  Look at the numbers Crosby, Ovechkin, Heatly, Hossa and Kovy put up on worse teams than the BJs in their past.

The year Nash produces like a top 10 forward is the year he deserves to be paid like one (so yes, that one year he was a coleader in goals scored he would have earned this contract but now he's getting paid Crosby money to produce like Franzen).

WOW are you even serious????   .... Crosby, Ovechkin, Heatly, Hossa and Kovy put up on worse teams than the BJs in their past.???????

those players put up better numbers and they were on worse teams than columbus???how the hell was pittsburgh,washington,san jose etc... worse than columbus?? columbus is a laughing stock , and who the hell did rick nash ever have to play with???? all those players you mentioned above ALL had someone to play with

rick nash has been a lone ranger in columbus his whole career

Why exactly? Abdelkader is already a younger, faster better version of Prust? I mean I'd like to add Prust, but he's not going to make a gigantic impact on the team, especially over some of the other names out there.

love abdelkader but i think prust is better right now at what he does  , id much rather have BOTH the more grit on this team the better if we can add prust and someone else like doan or ott or whomever itll only help the team

1.6 for prust for 3-4 yrs  he's 28 and its not a crazy contract youd find hard to trade away if ever holland wanted to

7.8 cap hit for rick nash + losing jarnkrok,smith,filppula and a 1st .... NO THANKSSSSS

I'd rather have Prust.

rather have both   ... i know it wont happen but if we threw in doan prust and ott into our lineup with the skill of datsyuk filppula franzen zetterberg and managed to get suter , watch out !


yes i know im dreaming

isnt wasnt garth snow it was the owner charles wang .... and howson should be fired on the spot for refusing such an offer that team could of used every single one of those picks and gotten a good prospect at 4 spot


that being said he fired his whole scouting staff after the draft

no idea!  .... this is the only page i found on him


http://eliteprospect...hp?player=40853

just turned 18 and 207 pds so hopefully he can be a player even if its the 3rd or 4th line be nice to add that size!

anyone know if we can sign anyone who wasnt drafted?

had my eye on him ....

http://www.elitepros...hp?player=33357


still 17