Core 4 No More: The Motherfucking Off-Season Thread

[Preston]

I like the proposal. And if Vancouver were to trade Pettersson yes they'd be dumb but..

1. There were times during the negotiation where it looked like trading him was a possibility. He then followed up the signing of his contract playing some of the worst hockey he has played in a couple years.

2. If they were dumb enough to actually trade him, they will never be offered a better return. 9 times out of 10 you're gonna lose the trade. This one could at least be a win-win.

 

[Preston]

But I agree the leafs would likely prefer to allocate that money on d

 

[CH1]

I hope the trade happens....for your sake. It would provide a great distraction from your neighbourhood marital drama.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Bangingtons.

 

[CH1]

Bangingtons.

an HBO MAX exclusive

 

[leafman101]

Its a good trade on paper because you get the C. But it doesn't solve the real problem of having all your money committed to 4 forwards and having a horrible D. So I'm not sure how far it actually gets you. Looks good though.

 

[Preston]

I hope the trade happens....for your sake. It would provide a great distraction from your neighbourhood marital drama.

Any trade proposed is highly against the odds! I'm just challenging the notion that it's a preposterous idea!

 

[MindzEye]

Its a good trade on paper because you get the C. But it doesn't solve the real problem of having all your money committed to 4 forwards and having a horrible D. So I'm not sure how far it actually gets you. Looks good though.

Nope

Turning JT's 11 million into defenders would do that though.

 

[leafman101]

Did the Carolina/Pettersson offer ever get leaked?

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Any trade proposed is highly against the odds! I'm just challenging the idea that it's a preposterous idea!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSQS06i7-w

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Did the Carolina/Pettersson offer ever get leaked?

Maybe we find a way to leak it to Friedman, and he reports it, and Tre gets confused and thinks he must've told Friedman, so he should get back on that and call Vancouver and try to make it happen.

 

[axlsalinger]

some more EP slander (I doubt Canucks would do this deal, however), and can't believe Mikheyev makes this much.


View: https://x.com/Hockey_Robinson/status/1790799318196060368

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Mikky isn't fast now??

 

[zeke]

Its a good trade on paper because you get the C. But it doesn't solve the real problem of having all your money committed to 4 forwards and having a horrible D. So I'm not sure how far it actually gets you. Looks good though.

trading Mitch for that reason when Tavares only has one year left on his deal and the cap is finally going up for the first time since we sigfned those contracts is pretty dumb tho.

also there are some questions about Pettersson's C-ishness.

 

[leafman101]

I'm not ok with wasting this year because the contract situation clears up next year.

 

[zeke]

I think dumping marner in a bad trade is worse than wasting this year, especially since we already wasted last year.

if you trade marner then suddenly one year from now we only have 2 elite forwards making big money and we better make up for that with legit elite talent somewhere else because that's nowhere near enough.

and Tavares should be very dumpable.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Tavares stays, Marner stays, and $25M gets reallocated.

That's the way to do it this year.

 

[hockeylover]

I feel like we had enough room cap wise for an actually good defender and just spent it on crap instead tho.

 

[leafman101]

I'm clearly not advocating dumping Marner in a bad trade. I just don't see the point in trading him in a trade for the sake of a trade. That doesn't make us better either.

Trading Marner only really makes sense for a high end D IMO.

 

[zeke]

ok but that means we have to immediately find an elite D in a trade for Mitch, which i'm not sure is available.