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I would think that with post like mine so eminently ignore worthy.. there'd be more appreciation for the move! Thanks for all the great insights on the trade guys!

Something cool about former NHL guys now involved with medias is that they tend to talk a lot and have good stories. Alain Chainey is one of them. Former head scout with the Ducks (responsible for Getz and Perry, among others). Link is in French : http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/d1f75d0f-1aa0-4e35-a94c-072dab72132c|_0.html Some cool stuff : 1- Getzlaf was 5th on their list. Perry was 8th. Around the 14th pick, the GM asked everyone if Getzlaf had some issues off the ice. Chainey told him that some night, he would take it a bit light, but he was young and would mature. He was really nervous when the Caps went with their pick because their head scout was from Regina, same as Getz. They went with Erik Fehr... 2- Chainey insisted that Bryan Murray trade for a late 1st to scoop Perry. They asked the Stars about two 2nd picks for their late 1st and they said that they would wait to see if their guy would still be there. Good for the Ducks, their player got picked so they agreed to the trade. 3- Corey Perry and Ducks 1st pick in 2004 were traded to the Oilers for Mike Comrie. The next day, traded was cancelled because Oilers wanted the Ducks to pay the 1M$ bonus to Comrie and they refused. 4- Erik Karlsson !!!! 2008, the Ducks owned the 12th pick. All scouts were on Karlsson but the GM would not draft a small offensive dman. They traded down to 18th just to get an extra 2nd rounder. Sens traded up and scooped Karlsson. When Chainey asked his Europe scout what he thought of Karlsson, he asked him to rate skills from 1 to 5. His scout gave him 4.5/5 for skating, 4.5/5 for skills with the puck, 4/5 for his shot and when he asked for his Hockey IQ rating, the scout said 6/5. All they had to do was not trade down and just pick Karlsson with 12th.

I think he really is capable of being our first line center. That's also on a team that needs top 6 centers so he should be valued even more. My opinion is also not what it is because we need top 6 center(s). He had 6 game winning goals last year and even ended the playoffs with something like 3 points in his last 4 games while no one took notice. As an organization we clearly don't value him that high, so it's probably best not to deal him away. I'm not trying to bring up Duchene specifically again but just as an example, I would have preferred that type of a deal than trading him for a defenseman, soon after trading Beaulieu away for only a 3rd rounder. There's a decent chance Leddy and Beaulieu end within 5-10 points of one another next year and we just traded him for a 3rd rounder. Sergachev will likely get some points as well. I think it's because of the trades we've already made that I wouldn't trade Galchenyuk unless it was for a heavy duty defenseman coming back. I'd rather trade him for a legitimate top 6 center if we were to trade him at all and I still wouldn't necessarily love it.

Lol it's hard for me not to respond to such ignorance of reality. I won't make posts personal from here on out

Can the two of you please just put each other on ignore? You don't see eye to eye on most things, that's more than evident. It's starting to get a little too personal though.

Here's the pool link: http://www.habsworld.net/2017/06/hw-expansion-draft-pool/ Hudon isn't really a centre though. They tried it for a bit in 2015-16 and it didn't go anywhere. He may have had the odd game this season there by default but he was predominantly a left winger. Even if Vegas doesn't take him, he's not a candidate for the 2C spot.

I see you ignore the fact that NGH and Eberle have been in the league a lot longer and their production has been declining. Talk about manipulating stats to support your favourite management teams next blunder.

Would you care to explain what this smile is about for us others who doesnt understand?

No doubt if he'd been internally developed, we'd have heard a lot about his deficiencies by now - how he should be Doug Jarvis instead of trying to be offensively creative - along with some shrug from Bergevin ('at some point it's up to the player'), strange benchings and moves all over the lineup, and a demand for a bridge deal rather than a cap-friendly long-term contract. They're locked in now, though, so maybe they will actually do what it takes to make it work, instead of blaming the player and jerking him around.