Rejoint: mai 2017
Messages: 28
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I don't think either trade is enough for those players. Both teams are looking to improve from last year, Buffalo wants out of the basement and Carolina wants to push for the playoffs. There needs to be a significant piece going to buffalo for them to bite on trading ROR. It is going to take at least 1 of Fabbri/Dunn/Kyrou/Thomas in order for them to even listen. They aren't going to take pure futures (late 1st at that), Two "meh" prospects in Blais & Schmaltz, and an average third liner.
Carolina isn't trading a 25-30 goal scorer for a 3rd line LW/C, a goalie prospect, and a 2nd. Even if he is just a one year rental. At minimum they could get a 1st and better prospect if they just hold onto him until the deadline.
Outside of that, I don't know why we would overpay Maroon to then play both Steen and Fabbri on their offsides. Steen is way better on LW than RW and putting Fabs on his off wing after being out for 1.5 years just seems like putting him at a disadvantage.
With this roster we still only have 1 RHS in the top 9 and only 2 in the entire forward lines. We need to be targeting more RHS forwards to balance this out or we are still going to be running a predictable and unproductive power play.
Adjusting the trade values, ROR/Skinner are both good targets in their own right, but the combination still leaves us unbalanced and having too many LWers and not enough RWers (even though Skinner can play some RW). I combination of ROR/Silfverberg or Tyler Johnson/Skinner helps add elements we need while balancing the LHS/RHS ratio.