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    Montreal at Arizona - 9PM EST

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    1 hour ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

     

    I think many fans give him a pass because our team is crap but holy hell what has Galchenyuk done to him to make CJ refuse to play him at centre? Anyone else but Galchenyuk...It is crazy. Our most gifted offensive weapon and he isn't being used as one. CJ is lost in 2002 the same as MB is.

     

    Let the circus continue

    I've said it before too. The nhl has left him in its dust. 

    Permanent Rumour Thread

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    1 hour ago, Metallica said:

    No but Bergevin is, if his ego still thinks this Is a good core group of players, he wont trade any of them and that means Plekenec.

    Plekanec isn't a core player though. If he stays or goes there is zero correlation to Pacioretty being dealt. 

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    2017-18 NHL Thread

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    8 hours ago, Commandant said:

    This deal is the Melnyk special... save 3 million over 3 years, downgrade in talent, get no future assets of any note.  Its all about the Benjamins in Ottawa. 

     

    Also, I love that Phaneuf got the Pierre Gauthier/Mike Cammalleri treatment, traded mid-game.

     

     

    Ottawa is/was a such a pretender. Trading for Phaneuf was just plain stupid 

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    14 hours ago, Metallica said:

    If we are going to resign Plekenec, I don't see anyone from this core being traded. I think Plekenec is the first domino to fall, if he gets traded they're blowing up the core. If he doesn't they are retooling once July 1st starts.

     

    I wonder what it would take to get pageau out of Ottawa, Always liked him  as a player.

    Plekanec is not a determining factor on this team 

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    Retool or rebuild. That is the question?

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    1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

    In a perfect world, you move Weber. He is well into the back 9 and can only decline - expensively - from here.

     

    The trouble with moving Weber is that the D is an absolute disaster without him.

     

    Now, the "tankers/rebuilders" might say that that's Jim Dandy: having the league's worst D means a series of lottery picks for sure. But I just don't believe you can rebuild that way. What the Edmonton experience shows is that if you just throw a bunch of young players together with no stabilizing veteran presence, no elite older guys, they never learn to do things properly and they internalize losing. They become losers.

     

    I don't want to be trying to integrate young defenceman into a d-corps that is laughably inept, where Jeff Petry is the #1 d-man and those young guys are getting lit up night after night. You need to have a minimum threshold of competence in order to provide those young players with an environment in which excellence is a meaningful standard. Right now only Weber provides that.

     

    Therefore, we can only trade Weber when we have at least one other legitimate top-pairing defender who can act as the glue guy on the blueline.

    How long have we gone without Weber this year....the team will survive 

     

    Trade him to a team who has a solid window of contention. The leafs looks like a team that could benefit from a player like Weber at this point.

     

    As I said before, why trade Pacioretty, yet keep Weber. If you're trading your top goal scorer for young assets, it makes zero sense to keep Weber. His best days will be behind him by the time this team rounds into form. 

    Predators @ Canadiens 7PM

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    1 minute ago, illWill said:

     

    This is the sort of ridiculousness that clouds an otherwise intelligent discussion. 

     

    Yes, him scouting a game tonight is the first time he has done his job in 5 years. That's a rational comment. 

    Bergevin is literally sucking the life out of this team.

     

    He has single handedly built one of the most boring, pungent team's I've watched in years; yet you still defend this plug. Why? 

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