As for the OTT trade, it's clear what you are saying.
But I think Norris is harder to move than PLD.
Say what you want about PLD, there maybe a disgruntled player there, and there maybe effort issues at times. But lack of talent there is not.
Norris on the other hand, how many times has that shoulder been operated on now? At least PLD is healthy. Norris is on LTIR like clockwork.
That's why OTT wants him moved out. It's hard to build a team with 8 mil in cap in limbo all the time. When he's there he's a good player......but when that is who knows.
I don't think the penguins are at the point where taking that risk makes sense for them. It will be a different situation when they finally come to the realization Malkin is too slow to be a top 6 center. If they get to that realization then you might have something. But they won't be taking that risk in a year they are trying to sign Crosby. They simply can't afford to.
Quoting: dopplsan
It’s not the worst Laine trade I’ve seen? But with retention, and in-division, I feel we could get more.
PIT just doesn’t really have the assets to make a trade with CBJ work, unless they decide to unload premium draft picks, which I imagine Dubai’s is hesitant to do…
did you smoke while typing this?
Did you see what PLD just went for? I mean really Laine is in the same boat right now. There is no value there for a disgruntled player who wants out and is now labeled a problem child.
This idea that there is great value there is absurd.
But hold off your delusional retort,
because he isn't coming to PIT.
Not because of any value.... but because he'd be no happier on a rebuilding penguins team than he is on a half rebuild CBJ team.
He's not coming to PIT. If that's the plan CBJ gives him, he'll be sitting back home in Finland on player assistance for another year while demanding a trade that suits him. He clearly could give a F about playing hockey at this point if he's not happy. If he did, he would have returned last year. But he didn't.