Raile wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:30 pm
Cornuck wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:34 am
I'm not on the "Trade him now" bandwagon, but if I were running the show, I'd also be taking calls.
What do you think you'd get for him though Corn?
Like it or not we came out of our rebuild largely because of our top 3 positions being considered filled: 1C, 1D, vezina caliber goalie.
Our Goalie is a huge question mark at this point, and if our 1C is traded at an extreme low point in value, how are we positioned to win the cup?
I'm of the position that hate it or not, we have to stick with him unless I'm wrong and some team is going to give us their 1C or future 1C for him. We aren't in a position for him to not work out unless we are ready to rebuild (or significantly retool)
At this point, if we trade him, it's a cap dump, with a quality player coming back.
Our window was wide open last year, and even EP40 stalling we were still in there. Then Demko went down, and it was a huge accomplishment to do what we did. So like you say, a year ago we had 1C, 1D, 1G looking great - now we have 1D sewn up, and the window is looking a little shaky.
But like I said in my post, I'm not on the 'trade him' side.... yet. I've seen improvement since the first game, and now we're 10 games in and still looking for him to 'flip the switch'. If he gets his shit together soon and Demko comes back, then were back to the 1C, 1D, 1G you mention and the window stays open. It's been over 50 years of this shit for us, and I'm doing my best to stay positive, but they don't make it easy, do they?