2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[Bingo]

Can we please just stop taking the bait?

Leave it and keep it on topic.

Sad world we live in ... everything is black and white. Extreme opinions back and forth. It's crazy.

And some got on me for trying to police the people trying to chase away insider reports ....

[Leeman4Gilmour]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I disagree. If you support Trump you support racism, pedophilia, rape, mass murder, and a dictatorship. If you are going to use an avatar of a man who is almost on par with Adolf Hitler you reap what you sew.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37493165

Spoiler!

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Please don't respond and take this thread more off th rails.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

But Hossa made the decision to only sign a one year contract with Detroit (the reining SC champion) when Chicago were basically a .500 team and had missed the playoffs.

He as much said (afterwards) he was waiting for the next year when Chicago could afford him.

That's a little strange, if true. Hossa lost in the Finals with Pittsburgh against the Wings, and signed a 1-year deal with the Wings, and then lost in the Finals against Pittsburgh before signing in Chicago.


Seems he was trying contenders out.

[Toast_Man]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

What about if I make my profile pic Netanyahu. Does that mean I support racism, apartheid, pedophilia, rape, ethnic cleansing and a genocide?

I assume it means you like Burger King.

[Monahammer]

Some of y'all need to take a vacation. Just take a sick day, and go sit by the river for an hour in a camping chair. No phone. Just look at the water go by.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Some of y'all need to take a vacation. Just take a sick day, and go sit by the river for an hour in a camping chair. No phone. Just look at the water go by.

In the United States.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Didn’t you tell once someone you wished they had experienced a terrorist attack in-person? I guess not everyone should be treated with respect.

Anyways, stand down, hero. The poster has said on more than one occasion he picked the avatar to troll people. We can go back to rehashing the Andersson or Kadri conversations safely now.

Rebuild or retool? Discuss!

I'm pretty certain Trump is tanking team America.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Some of y'all need to take a vacation. Just take a sick day, and go sit by the river for an hour in a camping chair. No phone. Just look at the water go by.

Turn off you tv too

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

Ahhh, yes, the "Everyone I Don’t Like, is Hitler (and a pedo as well)" stance. Classic.

I just think it's odd that it's seemingly ok to break forum rules and attack posters based on their avatar (or for any other reason at all).

I get that It's summer but it's just insane how much hostility there is here lately.

This is a very snowflakish post

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

What about if I make my profile pic Netanyahu. Does that mean I support racism, apartheid, pedophilia, rape, ethnic cleansing and a genocide?

Better question is what profile pic doesn’t trigger the usual suspects. Maybe a kitten? That might be at least racism and rape though.

Which makes sense in an NHL trade speculation thread.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Ped

That's a little strange, if true. Hossa lost in the Finals with Pittsburgh against the Wings, and signed a 1-year deal with the Wings, and then lost in the Finals against Pittsburgh before signing in Chicago.


Seems he was trying contenders out.

He said so when he signed with Chicago. He said he only signed one year with Detroit the year before as he wanted to sign with Chicago but they didn't have room for him. He made that decision when they were not a playoff team, but he saw them as the next big thing. He was right, although he was the missing ingredient.

You would have thought he'd a sign a long term with Detroit, who was a contender at the time.

And he was traded to Pittsburgh in a deadline deal.

But as Gio said, that was 17 years ago or so, and it's the only example I can remember.

[Knut]

I miss Rhett44 talking about Kadri...

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Some of y'all need to take a vacation. Just take a sick day, and go sit by the river for an hour in a camping chair. No phone. Just look at the water go by.

Too many mosquitos.

[gvitaly]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1957826440327553092

I doubt he has the speed to keep up.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Good for him I guess, but I doubt he even qualifies for being the 14th man on a roster.

[Plett25]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Ok, let's do this

Back to the Future
Doc Brown
Doctor Who
Who?
Star Lord
Tony Stark
Tony Stank
Logan Stankoven

I think that's right, I'm certain about the first few steps. Alternatively...

Back to the Future
Doc Brown
Doctor Who
The Who
The Ohio State University
Columbus Blue Jackets
Sean Monahan

Either way, more center depth, so must mean Kadri going the other way

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by gvitaly

Sure, acknowledging that there are 2 sides to every coin is the embarassing part. Life must be so easy when everything is so black and white.

Bullying a poster for his avatar, or political views is a-ok. Well I won't stand for it regardless if he's a Democrat, a Republican, a Liberal or a Conservative. I draw the line at Oiler fans.

Do I like Trump? No, but everyone should be treated with respect.

If you want, as luck would have it, I'm back in CGY to visit family for a couple of weeks so feel free to send me a DM and we can all go for a couple of beers and talk hockey and whatever, there you can explain to me how unreasonable I'm being, and what a terrible person I am.

I didn't say you were unreasonable or terrible. I said you wrote an embarrassing post. Good, reasonable people can be ignorant, or misguided.

We aren't discussing what the best muscle car is. Stop pretending that supporting outright hatred and ignorance is something we can discuss like old friends. I don't support any party blindly and I think good ideas can come from either side, but that post was nonsense.

We don't need to respect someone who has admitted to trolling on purpose either. They got the response they were looking for.

I probably shouldn't have responded to this last post, to keep the thread on track I won't respond to anymore of the political posts.

[Ba'alzamon]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

So, about those Flames. Do we think it is more likely Andersson is traded before the season or at the deadline?

Right now, I'm thinking Lindholm script. He's traded well into the season, but also well in advance of the deadline once someone finally meets Conroy's price.

Probably won't be a homerun like that trade was, but we can hope.

[BigThief]

You can have a vacation and still not be down with fascism

[Calgary4LIfe]

Originally Posted by BigThief

No, that's not true at all. Respect is earned, it's not default.

I see this statement a lot now, and I think it explains a lot of the terrible crap we see in society now. I am not taking a shot at you BT, and I am not saying that you walk around this way, but this post triggers me in the same way as the whole "Definition of insanity" that gets regurgitated over and over again.



People are often confusing respect with trust.


No, respect is NOT earned. Respect is FREELY given, and if you have anywhere close to decent manners, you give it always unless the you have learned of a particular person or two that you should no longer be giving them respect. It is up to an individual to make people lose respect for them, but otherwise, you walk this earth with respect for everyone.


Trust is earned. Trust shouldn't be freely given.

We live in an upside down world where people walk around with no respect for anyone else, while blindly trusting idiots spreading misinformation.