mikey287 wrote:It's not an unfair point. I just wonder if the organization sees that spot belonging to a big, slow, board worker at this point. Tangradi is shipped off for a song and the organization picks up a small, fairly quick skill guy. Maybe I shouldn't read much into the comings and goings of fringe NHLers, but you just kind of wonder how far detached we are from the 2008 and 2009 teams...
Malone, Guerin, Tangradi out. Sullivan, Boychuk, Bennett in.
You even start to see it in the drafting/prospects:
Before: signed scrubs Sill and Payerl, drafted Staal (big and slow), drafted Veilleux (big and slow), drafted Pierro-Zabotel (big, slow and terrible), drafted Caputi (big and slow), drafted Jeffrey (pretty big, fairly smart and pretty slow), drafted Hanowski (big and slow), drafted Petersen (big and slow)...
Now: signed Megna (skilled, small and quick), drafted Bennett (skilled, average and quick), drafted Archibald (small and skilled, and not as slow as Hanowski I don't think), drafted Wilson (uh, kind of gritty and skilled, not overly fast I guess...whatever), drafted Zlobin (small and skilled), drafted Marcantuoni (fast and somewhat skilled), drafted Blugers (small and skilled)...
I just kind of wonder if all this is adding up to something or if it's just the organization flushing out something it had too much of in exchange for something it didn't have enough of...
As for trade value, they just don't want him anymore it seems...they could use a PMD prospect (I don't think we have too many of those, let me ask the board...) or a center prospect...honestly, after the investment the Stars have made on drafting D in the past couple drafts (Oleksiak, Bystrom, Lindell, Sinitsyn is a super sleeper, etc.), they probably could use a center prospect. Though, on paper, it looks like they drafted a bunch (Gemel Smith, Mike Winther, Devin Shore, etc.) I'm not sure any of them project to be centers at the pro level. They'd all probably be better suited on the wing, except maybe one, maybe...
I'd prefer just to give them a 2nd and tell'em to keep the change if that's the route we're going. Otherwise, it's a matter of what their scouting staff likes...it wouldn't be Marcantuoni because they have him in Gemel Smith already...Blugers would work for them (but I wouldn't do it), Maatta would work for them (but I wouldn't do it), Morrow and Pouliot are overpayment in my opinion...
The organization is coo-coo for college puffs prospects (as if you had to guess by who is in charge)...if they like Nick D'Agostino as much as I do, I'd pair him up with a conditional 4th that becomes a 3rd if we win the Cup or something...otherwise, the simplest solution is to cough up our 2nd...which most people would say, "well, yeah, of course, do that!" but I'm protective of draft picks...
You really can't figure this one out bro?
Shero said he wanted BIG BODY NA like the 2006 Ducks. So in 2006 he drafted that way. When they won the cup the game was going more towards fast paced, less clutching and grabbing (even though the Red Wings were the kings of slight obstruction that never got a call)...since then the NHL Refs have reffed the last 2 playoffs like this is 1998. So our team has been less effective.
Shero and Bylsma for the past 2 years have been drafting, signing, players for a different NHL than the game is reffed. Think Goligoski's, Leopold pick up (completely terrible), Sullivans.. etc. Letting Mike Rupp, 6'5" go.
I don't have a problem with Shero drafting massive amounts of PMD because he gets returned. However, when you have the 8th pick in the draft, and you take the 7th defenseman on the board, reach for him, its just bad in my opinion. We knew about Saad the previous year, didn't pick him, got Harrington instead. Now Saad, isn't he Toews winger already? Whats Harrington, 7C on HF? Great...