The rumors are swirling now about the possibility of picking up Brad Richards or Marion Hossa. In the past two weeks, we've seen hockey news go from a standstill to marching along nicely. I personally am of the opinion that Richards and Hossa carry individually too much of a hefty pricetag to be worth it to the Stars. Generally, I hope no one gets traded and we keep the team we have. It would be nice to have a little extra scoring, but I can't see us getting it at a great price. The only way we could probably get it is to overpay, and I'm not big on that.
Then again, I'm not a co-interim GM, so there you go.
And then there's around the league...
As far as Mats Sundin goes, if he wants to stay in Toronto, he's earned it. Everyone can bitch about how Mats is hurting the franchise, but if we're hurtling blame at anyone, let's throw it squarely at MLSE, not Mats Sundin. Mismanagement has ruined that team.
Patrick Marleau is going to have to get traded from San Jose. I read over at Kukla's Korner today that Marleau is a staggering -21. MINUS TWENTY ONE, and the guy's pulling down several millions a year. Sheesh, and I get upset about Matty Norstrom's -8 at $4.25 million/year.
Brian Campbell needs to leave the Buffalo Sabres. The contract negotiations don't look good on his part, and he needs to go somewhere else where he can stand in the defensive zone and look like a dumbass. What he's asking for is, in my opinion, unjustifiable. People need to stop giving such long-ass contract extensions around the league. It's patently ridiculous. (Ted Leonsis, I like you, but thirteen years? Dear God!) "Let's lock in Player X for a ridiculous sum at...twelve years!" A year to a professional athlete is like dog years. There's so many uncertain variables in the general equation that you can't guarantee that Player X is going to be worth $6 million ten years down the line.
I'm too busy laughing at the Red Wings' unfortunate trade fate to make a snarky comment about that. Ha!
Tampa Bay has screwed themselves over. Aren't they like, eight billion dollars in debt carrying over the max cap limit thanks to St. Louis, Lecavalier and Richards? (And bad management/coaching?)
In short, I don't predict that tomorrow will really bring any blockbuster trades or anything we didn't already marginally suspect. Sundin has kind of taken the wind out of everyone's sails by not going and being a rental player for some other team.
And Jeremy Roenick? Still an asshole!
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