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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I never bought the 'where there's smoke there's fire' mentality. Possibility, yes, but Tre likes to talk quietly in corners, as well.
I brought up Carolina, because Ward is off the books next year and they are tied to Darling, with nothing else coming up.
They do have a huge surplus of left handed D. If we wanted to move Brodie at some point, it might make sense to go to the hurricanes with Gilles.
That would make a Brodie for Stone Hoffman much more palatable, would it not?
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I did some digging on Carolina.Their top goalie prospect is Alex Nedjilkovich (spelling?) He's rocking a 2.99 gaa and a .897 sv% in 31 gp. Gillies on the other hand is rocking a .915 and 2.64 gaa in 29 gp. Their guy is two years younger than Gillies but it looks like Gillies has put up better numbers across the board in previous years.
I don't know if Gillies is such a marked improvement over their top guy to reel in a scoring winger off their roster.
But it may buy a player like Valntin Zykov who is having a good season on the farm team. Already has bested his previous seasons points totals in 24 less games played, and has scored 23 goals this year alone instead of last seasons 16. So he is progressing nicely. Stocky RH/RW who seems poised to break into the NHL.
Tricky thing is, Carolina also has a RW depth issue. So they may not favor that kind of swap. But Ndjelkovich or whatever is about their only decent goaltending prospect so who knows.