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If anyone can Richards out of Dallas, its Burke. The owner is hurting and its only halfway through the season. MLSE slides Dallas 5 million dollars offshore, some picks, Kadri and Aulie and Brads your uncle.
 
teeds said:
If anyone can Richards out of Dallas, its Burke. The owner is hurting and its only halfway through the season. MLSE slides Dallas 5 million dollars offshore, some picks, Kadri and Aulie and Brads your uncle.
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Way too much for a UFA. Especially the picks.
 
Malkin seems to either be injured permanently or discovered cocaine. Now there is a guy who is DONE as a top five player.
 
completely disagree with ya Teeds. Malkin is a top 5 player in this league, played hurt last year and this year and will explode at the end of this year/next year barring injury
 
Nah, Malkin hasn't been a top player in the NHL since the end of the 2008-09 post-season. For whatever reason (comparable to Phaneuf's fall from grace) he hasn't been the same player since. Lack of motivation perhaps?
 
Living under shadow doesn't help. No matter how well he plays he'll always be second on that team.

You even seen a glimpse of the type character he is on 24/7 when they asked Crosby about who gets to skate out first and Malkin argued that he was in the KHL for 3 years compared to Crosby's one year in the NHL so he should get to go first.

No slight against but some people need to the alpha male to excel
 
I don't buy that. In 08-09 he was the best player in the NHL including the playoffs.

He's just been hurt the last 2 years. And last year he was still near the top of the league in ppg and was a top player. He'll end up there this year too.

There aren't many guys in the league I'd take over Malkin.
 
I love Russian women, and do some business with Russian men. Brilliant people, but an 84 game regular season schedule with tons of playoffs and exhibition games cuts into their scene. I would never pay huge money for a Russian other than a few. Great talents, the best imo, but emotionally, part time players. They love life too much to play hard all the time. I understand it, but in a cap world, you cannot have too much of that. See a lot of Russians on Burkes teams? Just two, and these two are hard workers.
 
Blueman said:
completely disagree with ya Teeds. Malkin is a top 5 player in this league, played hurt last year and this year and will explode at the end of this year/next year barring injury
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I'd put the following ahead of Malkin:

Crosby
Stamkos
Ovechkin
D Sedin
H Sedin
Backstrom

So no, I don't think he's a top 5, I would even go as far to say hes no longer in the top 10, top 20? Maybe.
 
That's okay, this is your list.

My List goes like this:
Crosby
Ovechkin
Malkin

IMO I would pick Malkin over Stamkos, Sedin's and Backstrom.
 
I agree, you need 2 Sedins before they are better than 1 Malkin. And Nick Backstrom has been as disappointing as Ovechkin this season.
 
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