You know, I hear people say over and over that Columbus can get way more at the draft.. but with every shutout loss the Kings suffer the opportunity to totally fleece the greatest GM EVERY DEAN LOMBARDI! becomes greater and greater. In fact, if they lose at Phoenix on Tuesday the bounty they could collect from LA and its dreadful offense could reach epic proportions. Now, as for whether or not CBJ and their equally terrific GM is smart enough to do it.. thats another matter.
- CPerryisaterd

why would he trade for LA's garbage?? nash for guys who cant score and a pick

dump Wolski and Dubinsky via Trade and you got Parise

Parise-Richards-Gaborik

Staal-Girardi

Lundqvist

Best Starting Lineup in the league for sure
- Kuleminator

your forgetting the leafs

stamkos-crosby-giroux

ya ek stop with the Getzlaf stuff
- mwhharris

poop, not even Ryan is available anymore from the sounds of things (if he ever actually was, he's not now). Oh Ek, the lengths he goes to pander to the base.

why would he trade for LA's garbage?? nash for guys who cant score and a pick
- mwhharris

LA is one of the frontrunners by all accounts...

The first line makeup is not the problem and that team should have no problem scoring based on their talent. Their issue is that the they depleted their 3rd line to get Richards. Kopitar should be a 100 point player with his talent. Richards should be a 70-75 point guy. Doughty has been terrible and was a distraction. He should be one of the 10 best players in the game if his heart is in it.

Nash is not the solution for the Kings. They need 1 more top 6 and 2 more 3rd liners. They don't need a premier scorer like Nash. They already sold the farm for Richards and look how that went down. If anything deal Richards to Columbus to reunite him with Carter there if Nash comes to L.A.
- therealagent

Thats not right. We got rid of simmonds and schenn for richards. Thats not the farm. Just sayin.

ya ek stop with the Getzlaf stuff
- mwhharris

ya ek

your forgetting the leafs

stamkos-crosby-giroux

- dmarsden2988

Sorry with Lundqvist in net all you need is 3 GPG

why would he trade for LA's garbage?? nash for guys who cant score and a pick
- mwhharris

you get 2 monkeys in a room, put a banana behind a glass window, and see what happens............one of them will give in

Anyone getting all excited for the deadline because of Nash will be disappointed. There's pretty well no reason I see for Columbus not to wait until the offseason.
- S Kaspar Rollins

Do we really know that is value will be higher at the draft? I'm not sure if his value will really go up teams close to the cap can take advantage of his prorate cap hit at the deadline. If the same team tries to acquire him in the offseason they may be forced to sacrifice more roster players for the capspace.

why would he trade for LA's garbage?? nash for guys who cant score and a pick
- mwhharris

Any King that gets traded anywhere is likely to instantly become a 40 point per year guy. History supports that claim.

God bless you mr. Enklant.

Any King that gets traded anywhere is likely to instantly become a 40 point per year guy. History supports that claim.
- CPerryisaterd

not sure .... Penner is still a Pancake

Thats not right. We got rid of simmonds and schenn for richards. Thats not the farm. Just sayin.
- Deadmau55

you lost simmonds, schenn who would have played this year in that deal. the other key guy you lost was smyth. i didn't say they were all in the richards deal.

i like the kings. they should be way better. i'll take brown on my team any day.

Do we really know that is value will be higher at the draft? I'm not sure if his value will really go up teams close to the cap can take advantage of his prorate cap hit at the deadline. If the same team tries to acquire him in the offseason they may be forced to sacrifice more roster players for the capspace.
- flamminghead

The key thing is that there are teams not interested now who may end up interested by the draft for a bunch of reasons. At least that's the main argument. The other is that it's such a momentous decision for Columbus that they want to be absolutely sure

I don't know if his value will be higher or lower, but I don't think the cap hit thing makes that much of a difference, especially when you consider that in the offseason it won't be an issue at all.

not sure .... Penner is still a Pancake
- Kuleminator

okay, maybe not penner. touche.

you lost simmonds, schenn who would have played this year in that deal. the other key guy you lost was smyth. i didn't say they were all in the richards deal.

i like the kings. they should be way better. i'll take brown on my team any day.
- therealagent

"They already sold the farm for Richards" But I agree with you. 100%

okay, maybe not penner. touche.
- CPerryisaterd

the only way it could be worse would be Voynov and a first for Hemsky then the kings would have 2 pancakes with syrup

WIRE FILSON!

You mean Bryz isn't the goalie Philly thought he was?

You mean Bryz isn't the goalie Philly thought he was?
- Desert_Dog

He was only good cause of your D playing in front of him.

He was only good cause of your D playing in front of him.
- Deadmau55

This.


Mike Smith is the same way, his numbers would be a lot worse in Philly too.

He was only good cause of your D playing in front of him.
- Deadmau55

I was being sarcastic. Of course it was Tippetts's system that earned Bryz his fat contract.

one thing I gave thought to was this...

does burke go after Nabokov or Harding, and make Reimer available to the jackets as part of a package for either Carter or Nash?

one thing I gave thought to was this...

does burke go after Nabokov or Harding, and make Reimer available to the jackets as part of a package for either Carter or Nash?
- aries1976

I doubt the Jackets want Reimer. And as much as I would like to see it, I think Burke is too stubborn to go shop for a goaltender who can perform with any amount of consistency.

Reimer and Gustavsson are both decent goaltenders, but they're not the type of guys who are going to steal you any games, especially when playing behind a team who's system appears to be "If we give the other team enough odd man rushes, eventually they'll get confused, and then we can try to score".

I doubt the Jackets want Reimer. And as much as I would like to see it, I think Burke is too stubborn to go shop for a goaltender who can perform with any amount of consistency.

Reimer and Gustavsson are both decent goaltenders, but they're not the type of guys who are going to steal you any games, especially when playing behind a team who's system appears to be "If we give the other team enough odd man rushes, eventually they'll get confused, and then we can try to score".
- Scruffton

Burke thinks outside of the box on certain things, you really have no idea what he has planned, we kind knew about the kessel deal ahead of time, but were clueless on the phaneuf, and lupul/gardiner deals.... and he isnt afraid to roll the dice.

if a goalie is a criteria for the jackets, I could see Reimer going, since it's been said Scrivans and Rynnas could be better pro's once they are ready, same with Owuya....

it's something minimal number of people have talked about, but has the chance of being a legit option to get a deal done, if there is a deal to be made.