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I don't believe that for a second.

The entire reason the trade didn't happen is that Burke(and then Nonis) refused to offer any real value for Luongo. This is exactly what Gillis was whining about for months on end.
 
And why would the Canucks trade Lou at the deadline last year? He didn't lose his #1 job until midway through the first round...
 
Yeah, I don't believe that rumor for a second. That Burke would offer that, gutting the team of it's centers. And that Gillis would turn down that trade.
 
At that time, they'd only be trading 1 C as they had Kadri on the wing.

You'd have Grabo, Connolly up the middle and scrubs would take up the bottom 2 C spots, which is what they were doing for a few seasons.

That being said, I don't believe that rumour. At least I hope it's not true from our standpoint.
 
I believe it. Burke considered Kadri a bust, Bozak was a pending UFA, and say a 3rd rounder. Most here would've made that deal back then too.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I believe it. Burke considered Kadri a bust, Bozak was a pending UFA, and say a 3rd rounder. Most here would've made that deal back then too.
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If Burke thought Kadri was a bust, he would've shipped him out for whatever he could get while he thought he still had value like he did with Jiri Tlusty.

Don't believe all the horseshit teeds has been shovelling on here these past few years.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I believe it. Burke considered Kadri a bust, Bozak was a pending UFA, and say a 3rd rounder. Most here would've made that deal back then too.
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No way.

1. I have always believed in Kadri ... I know this board is maybe 50/50 on Kadri though
2. Regardless of what you think of Kadri, Luongo had a huge, long contract and worse, heading into a new CBA there's a lot of uncertainty about how his cap hit would affect the team

Luongo is an elite goalie, but his contract and his age greatly reduces his trade value. No way I would have traded the top (or 2nd best ... him and Gardiner) prospect in the system for him.
 
I still don't get why we just take it as a given that Gillis was shopping Luongo at the deadline. He was their #1, Schneider was unsigned.

This makes no sense.
 
They didn't decide to go with Schneider overnight. They knew the decision was coming last summer with Schneider as an RFA.

It wasn't exactly a shocker.
 
Just like earlier when Gillis said to the media that he had a potential deal in place(pending this and that) i think this is similar bs.
 
leafman101 said:
They didn't decide to go with Schneider overnight. They knew the decision was coming last summer with Schneider as an RFA.

It wasn't exactly a shocker.
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Yeah, but the rumour Cox reported was from the previous trade deadline. They may have known the decision was coming at that point, but pretty tough to argue they'd already made it (what with Luongo being their game #1 starter and all). And at this point it's highly unlikely Luongo had requested a trade.

So unless Gillis had already decided a) Schneids would be #1; and b) approached Luongo to tell him, why would the top team in the West be shopping their starting goalie?
 
Pretty sure they knew they'd be dumping Luongo for Schneider before last season started. They knew Schnieder was in for a big raise and it wasn't ideal to keep both of them. Would be more surprising if they weren't discussing Lou to be honest.
 
leafman101 said:
Pretty sure they knew they'd be dumping Luongo for Schneider before last season started. They knew Schnieder was in for a big raise and it wasn't ideal to keep both of them. Would be more surprising if they weren't discussing Lou to be honest.
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So Lou leads them within a win of the Stanley Cup, is signed for a gazillion years, and all of a sudden they decided Schneider is their guy?
 
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