No thanks on those 2 trades

You prefer the Buchnevich disaster?

Do you want the Kuznetsov trade or are you thinking that is something Drury would do...?

Buch deal isn't a disaster. Yes it's leaning towards the blues and you guys overrate his value as a first rounder, but in all honesty. Samuel Blais is one of the better power forwards the Blues have. Blais hits like a freight train and gets in the dirty areas. You can utilize him as a 200 foot player. It's not like you completely lost. Goodrow would most likely work just fine with Blais. I'm sure you can find some great right wingers if you want to. Kuznetsov came off a not so great year. So that wouldn't really work. Only thing you can really think to do is go into Free Agency with the intent to sign some good players and develop the prospects you have.

I don’t really want kuznetsov but I think given the position the owner has put us in, he’s one of the better options for improving the team right away. It’s way better than dumping Buch and not adding something that can help now (or overpaying for Eichel) which is where we are now. To answer your question, it’s my idea for what I would do, not what I think that idiot Drury is going to do.


Blais will be out of the league within 3 years and Buch will be a point per game player in STL. It was an awful trade.

You could probably get PEB for half that amount

I just could see NYR going for Kadri if they really want a counter to Tom Wilson.

COL should trade Kadri because they simply can't trust him come the playoffs. One more bad move and he's out over a series of games. How do you enter the playoffs after a choke job last year and the window being right now?

For NYR, they just want to make the playoffs, and Dolan has them on a kick of trying to be the tough guy on campus.

So in this situation we end up remaining the worst (possibly even worse than last year) defensive center core and faceoff team in the league.

Secondly, assuming Kakko gets his ELC bridge contract... you wont be able to resign Zib or Fox.

I’ll bet you Blais has a good 10 years left in the league, don’t know why you’re so down on him. I see him progressing similar to Coleman.

I thought about Kadri. Might be worth a shot but dealing with Sakic is as bad as Yzerman.


There is 22m in space next summer to sign Mika, Fox, a backup goalie and 3 bottom 6 forwards in my proposal. Fox and Mika probably combine for 18-19m. So it’s close but not impossible. Not sure I’m interested in extending Mika anyway…



Guy was a role player for a playoff run led by a great veteran core. Cant stay healthy and doesn’t score. He’s already 25 and bangers rarely last past 30. Yeah, I’m down on him. He’s a replacement level player. We have Phil Di Guiseppe that does the same thing - it’s fun to watch but not really a unique or rare commodity.

Blais won't be out of the league within 3 years. You didn't watch him player probably.

He does score that's the thing. Berube's gameplan for him was to literally only hit.

17 goals in 119 games. I’m sure Berube told him not to score…

Berube has him on a checking line. Do you really expect a kid to score when he's put on a line with barbashev and clifford? He started scoring when they moved him into a different role. 2nd Line role.

COL absolutely won’t trade Kadri because 1) he has one year left and is the perfect cushion for Newhook to slide into the 2C spot 2) what in the heck are they going to get in fair value that is worth the 2C. With players like Kadri you have to be willing to take the bad with the good.