Good morning, everyone! Despite having the night off, the Bruins’ odds of making the playoffs improved last night with losses to New Jersey and Carolina. The Flyers are still in the playoff bubble mix after a possibly season-saving save of the season by Michael Neuvirth.
Carolina’s loss sets up a great opportunity for the Bruins tonight when they visit the Canes. A win tonight would further the playoff push, hurt the Canes’ playoff chances, and make it more likely that the Bruins leave Carolina with John-Michael Liles on the team plane.
The biggest buzz in the news last night, of course, was the trade of Andrew Ladd to Chicago. For all the talk of 1st-round picks not likely being in play at the trade deadline this year, and talk of trade returns being lower than expected, Chicago blew that out of the water by sending a 2016 1st-round pick and a top prospect, Marko Dano, to the Jets. There’s a conditional 3rd-round pick in 2018 involved as well, going to the Jets if Chicago wins the Cup. The Jets also sent Froyo Fraser and Jay Harrison to the Hawks, but I’m not sure why.
Our attentions obviously turn to Loui Eriksson. The Bruins offered him a contract extension, but have not heard back from his camp. The price the Blackhawks paid for Ladd gets one speculating about what other teams would offer for Loui. A similar deal from Anaheim would be a 1st-round pick, a prospect like Jacob Larsson or Brandon Montour, and possibly a low conditional pick. The Kings are rumored to be interested, and a similar deal would be a 1st-round pick in 2017 (their 2016 1st-rounder went to Carolina in the Andrej Sekera trade) and left wing prospect Adrian Kempe. If the Bruins can’t pry Jonas Brodin or Matt Dumba out of Minnesota, perhaps they could get a 1st-round pick and a prospect like right winger Alex Tuch or defenseman Gustav Olofsson. Or perhaps the Bruins treat Loui as an “own rental” and hold onto him for the playoff run.
Interesting days ahead, starting tonight! What’s on tap?
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How about Louie and Gus OR TUUKKA (sorry, best sarcastifont i can manage at the moment) to the Blues for Shattenkirk. They need a goalie short term, no?
We’d have to take a player back along with Shattenkirk ’cause they’re maxed out to the cap.
I think that’s why Gus makes sense for them. What’s his prorated cap hit? A box of sticks?
Perhaps. But there are better backups on the market, such as Reimer or Hi I’m
They’re all about the same. Reimer has more upside, but he may have more downside, too. Prone to implosion.
Prone to playing on the Leafs. He needs a change of scenery.
I just felt so bad about what his WIFE went through for committing the unspeakable crime of actually being married to a goalie in Toronto who was having a rough go of things. That crosses one big fat line there.
Yeah chokes in Game Seven situations. Hoo, boy…
Huh…I wonder if we’d go back to Hi I’m…
That Coburn deal doesn’t seem like such a smart move by Yzerman. Too many more valuable players needing new contracts
Plus Hedman’s and Bishop’s contracts run out at the end of next season.
I’m shocked they did this. They’re already struggling with 1 terrible contract on D with Carle
heh. 7(!!) RFA’s this summer plus stamkos, and then Johnson and Palat are RFA next year in addition to Hedman and Bishop going UFA
hahahahaha I love this place.
Earlier this week, I busted my ass off to get a machine done as a loaner to an important customer because their unit wasn’t working properly. Everyone & their brother was up my case asking for when it’d be done. Well, the customer is now happy with their machine again & they do not want the loaner unit. Thanks for wasting my time jerk-wads! hahahahahhahahahahahahhaha
Guys, help me out here. I think the return address where my hoodie was shipped is actually a UPS store. Can I send it back to them? What should I do?
This isn’t me venting, this is me actually asking for advice, by the way.
Did you contact the seller and get the return address from them?
Just left him a voicemail…we’ll see if he’s going to respond to that. Like that’s the thing, his customer service skills have been completely lacking from the start so in that respect, should I just send it back to the UPS store and say this is what the return address given was?
He hasn’t been very helpful at all with the return process. I almost doubt he’d even give it to me.
I mean for all I know he could have me send it to a Domino’s Pizza.
http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/new-jersey-devils
Jesus does New Jersey have their work cut out for them this offseason
That’s a lot of contracts to worry about at once.
oh my gawwwwd I’ve been at work all day and nobody’s been traded yet so I have to focus on learning mail server stuff.
I think every year I say “I should take next year’s Trade Deadline Day off” and then I don’t.
No fucking way I can. End of month, yo.
this is a stupid deadline. Isn’t usually the 1st week in March?
Not a bad idea. It’s not like I’m gonna get anything done.
I’ve already got the day off Took it off in January lol
I KNEW someone here did.
I’d take “free agent day” off too if it wasn’t already part of the July break we get usually.
Bunch of jerks in the NHL. Why can’t they understand we’re bored at work & need them to do stuff
Oh excuse me my phone was buzzing like crazy this morning and I wondered if something had actually happened. *twitch*
Read this Jimmy Vesey essay at the Player’s Tribune. Its really good
wow that was an awesome read. I wonder if Nashville had any issues with that decision & if he’s still a key piece for them.
Random thought. Does anyone know what the Flyers D prospect pool looks like? With Gostisbehere lighting the world on fire & Philly still on the outside of the playoffs, do you think there could be a package created to snag Provorov out of there?
Their D prospects are out of this world (Provorov, Morin, Hagg, Sanheim). They aren’t renting, and they sure as fuck aren’t moving any of them yet. and I suspect Provorov is the untouchable of the quartet
Just took a look…wow, yeah…that’s gonna be a scary d-corps in a couple years. Interesting tidbit out of Ghost Bear’s profile:
“2009-10: After playing his youth hockey in the Florida Junior Panthers program…”
Say what you want about Bettman and the viability of certain teams, but Bettman’s had a very long-term goal of youth hockey development in the US. We’re starting to see the fruits of that.
Yup, reffed a couple games with Gostisbehere in them at South Kent. Those were the last years of South Kent competing as a prep school. They now play USA Hockey as Selects Academy and their U-16 team is number 4 in the country . The U-18 team has 16 kids headed to D-1 programs next fall
Shattuck St Mary’s started this trend. The advantage over a prep school league is the opportunity for a national championship (even if half the kids on the team are from Canada or Europe).
Nice!
That’s crazy
Auston Matthews.
Yeah, we’re at the point now where kids who were born post- Panthers Stars and Coyotes are becoming prospects, and we’re only a few years out from probably seeing kids come out of Tennessee as well
More Ohio kids as well, I’d think, even though they aren’t terribly uncommon now.
well there is this kid playing in Switzerland from Arizona that’s supposedly kinda good right
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I don’t think it would be a rental situation, but more of a prospect / pick swap. We know that Gabrielle is having a hell of a season. Him + one of the 1st’s (the 1 for Loui maybe?) Would that be enough?
Doubtful. Again, maybe you get them talking about Sanheim, or more likely Morrow, but Hextall hangs up if you mention Provorov. Hes the best of the bunch by miles.
But flipping Gabrielle is not a bad idea. Hes probably at peak value right now, especially as a former 4th rounder. That said, prospects tend to have less value in trades than picks (because reasons… or something). But he’d probably do what a 2nd would do in a trade otherwise right now.
That said, I am totally against trading with Hextall. between overpaying for Rinaldo and him managing to actually trade Lecavalier, I don’t want to walk into that lions den
Fair point on Hextall, and not knowing anything other than Provorov is a flyer, that’s why i used him. Thinking outside the box ya know? Use Loui to get pick / prospect. Flip pick prospect to poor team selling off?
Also, when I typed Morrow I meant Morin, but my fingers autopilot, so yeah
I knew what you meant lol.
BORK BORK BORK
This reminds me, Bartkowski scored TWO GOALS last night.