[Trade] Reto Berra to the Avs for a *2014 2nd round pick*

[CaptainCrunch]

Great trade all of a sudden

[skudr248]

We once gave up a 2nd for a guy named kiprusoff, he turned out pretty good

[GreenLantern]

Yea great trade by Burke, 2nd for Berra and a 3rd for Stempniak. Good moves I am happy.

Like I said before... no problem with Berra, he did well this year. But with Ramo on his way back and Ortio playing as good as he has, Berra was the odd man out. Just a victim of circumstances.

[sureLoss]

Aaron Vickers @AAVickers
Sakic on G Bera: “With this acquisition we feel we have further solidified our goaltending situation, for the present and future." #Flames

[flames_fan_down_under]

Wow, pretty good returns for Berra and Stempniak.

[Reign of Fire]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Aaron Vickers @AAVickers
Sakic on G Bera: “With this acquisition we feel we have further solidified our goaltending situation, for the present and future." #Flames

wow i wonder what they see...hopefully we didn't trade a future no.1

[DionTheDman]

Originally Posted by Samiz

Do you guys think this is kinda reminiscent to Kipper from the Sharks for a 2nd?

I'd be ok with a Vlasic-type return.

[SuperMatt18]

Goalies are weird.

San Jose fans were probably pumped that they got a 2nd for Kipper at the time too. (and Vlasic has turned out pretty damn good too).

He has size, and he has crazy athleticism. If Roy/Allure can teach him some positioning and technique this could look like a steal for them in 10 years.

Great trade for Calgary today since Berra wasn't in our future plans, but would not be surprised if this looked like a win for Colorado in the future.

[c.t.ner]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Do you really like Reto Berra and believe him that much? Honest question.

I do.

Berra is 26, playing his first year in North American Hockey. Sure he's left in some softies, but it's not like he's crapping the bed in front of the St. Louis blues.

Kid has tonnes of potential and you throw into the mix that the Avs are pretty good at turning goalies in to strong starters this is pretty good deal for the Avs. My guess is that Burke wasn't openly shopping Berra and the Avs came in with an offer he couldn't refuse.

[nik-]

haha holy crap a 2nd.

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by Lego Man

We should be thanking Feaster for acquiring Berra in the first place.

For Bouwmeester?????

[Tinordi]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Speak for yourself.

Isn't that what he's, by definition, doing on an internet message board?

[FireGilbert]

I wonder if Berra going to the Olympics and playing a good game against Sweden helped increase his value.

Will the Avs be sending him to the minors or going with three goalies?

[killer_carlson]

this is one of those:

"We actually had a trade for Giguere in the works and needed a back up, only to have Washington trade for Halak instead of Giguere and now we have an extra goalie. oops."

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by fotze

This trade and entire day just re-emphasizes the fact that I know nothing about player values in this league. Re-invigorates my resolve to avoid reading any and all fan based trade proposals.

If it helps, you know as much as Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy and Greg Sherman do.

[Tinordi]

I get how Roy would be into Berra. He does show impressive athleticism at times, some unreal instinct saves. Maybe Roy thinks his problems are just technique which will be easy to fix or hell, maybe he even sees a bit of himself in Berra, who knows.

[CSharp]

Yikes, hope this trade doesn't come back to haunt the Flames in the future when this team becomes a playoff contender in like 7 or 8 years!

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I'd really love to know how this happened. You could make the claim the market on scoring wingers was over saturated so naturally Cammalleri's price might be low and Burke didn't bite... but there was plenty of middling goalies being shopped around the past 48 hours.

Originally Posted by fotze

This trade and entire day just re-emphasizes the fact that I know nothing about player values in this league. Re-invigorates my resolve to avoid reading any and all fan based trade proposals.

yup... what a weird frickin year

[c.t.ner]

Originally Posted by Mitch

For Bouwmeester?????

If you want to pull that logic, then we got Emile Poirier, a 2nd and Mark Cundari for Bouwmeester.

Depending on what happens with the second could be a solid return. IMO Poirier is one of the most exciting prospects we have.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Isn't that what he's, by definition, doing on an internet message board?

What Doom is doing, by definition, is called a figure of speech.