2024 Off-season trade rumours and speculation thread

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL

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47 Playoff games with Florida over 4 seasons, including now back-to-back Finals.

Yea, don't think making the Playoffs is an issue for Bennett

It was a shot at the flames…

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I think Markstrom will be traded this summer and the return will be fine, but it will apparently shock a large portion of this board, proposing top 10 pick returns.

I bet it'll be a second in this draft or next and a project/mid level prospect. I'll be fine with that. The time to nail that trade was at the deadline and there was allegedly some sort of breakdown or hard line of Mercer or something.

Correct and not trading him was a mistake by Conroy / Flames. Pretty obvious at the time and mentioned by many on here they should have pulled the trigger.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Correct and not trading him was a mistake by Conroy / Flames. Pretty obvious at the time and mentioned by many on here they should have pulled the trigger.

I still think it was a retention issue facilitated by Mr.Bean, I'm sticking with that giving me another reason to be glad he's gone.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL

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47 Playoff games with Florida over 4 seasons, including now back-to-back Finals.

Yea, don't think making the Playoffs is an issue for Bennett

Man crazy that you mention that. Bennett was a real regular season hero for the flames, I’ll never forget when he torched the league for 140 points that one season.

Oh…wait…he put up 140 points over 6 1/2 years?? And he’s a hero? Nah man, Bennett should be the perfect target for Vegas. He sucks in the regular season but is a playoff beast. Bennet regular season is completely replaceable

[Redrum]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

He is a good and useful player with a career high of 49 points in a season. He is not a star by any measure whatsoever and the Flames would still be a bottom-feeder if they got him back.

No kidding, zero preseason awards to speak of. What a loser.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

I still think it was a retention issue facilitated by Mr.Bean, I'm sticking with that giving me another reason to be glad he's gone.

Bean was just a fall guy and a spokesperson for the owners.

Darren Dreger is our assistant GMs cousin. And he said himself that Flames ownership nixed a deal Conroy had made.

We will definitely be getting less value than we would have at the deadline. How much less remains to be seen.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

I still think it was a retention issue facilitated by Mr.Bean, I'm sticking with that giving me another reason to be glad he's gone.

Bean was not involved in hockey decisions. He was the owners mouth piece.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

Bean was just a fall guy and a spokesperson for the owners.

Darren Dreger is our assistant GMs cousin. And he said himself that Flames ownership nixed a deal Conroy had made.

We will definitely be getting less value than we would have at the deadline. How much less remains to be seen.

Wait what???? I haven’t heard this Dreger rumour . Not saying he is wrong , just 1st I’ve heard of it.

[Ashasx]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

Wait what???? I haven’t heard this Dreger rumour . Not saying he is wrong , just 1st I’ve heard of it.

Dreger was on Barn Burner last week.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1793776852026503648

Seems like ownership didn't want to call it a season.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

Dreger was on Barn Burner last week.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1793776852026503648

Seems like ownership didn't want to call it a season.

lol. Ownership makes it tough to cheer for this team some days. Piss off the player and lose leverage to try and make a miracle run to get bounced in the first round knowing they wouldn’t have a functioning dcore.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Man crazy that you mention that. Bennett was a real regular season hero for the flames, I’ll never forget when he torched the league for 140 points that one season.

Oh…wait…he put up 140 points over 6 1/2 years?? And he’s a hero? Nah man, Bennett should be the perfect target for Vegas. He sucks in the regular season but is a playoff beast. Bennet regular season is completely replaceable

Exactly, the Flames historically are a regular season team uninterested in post season success. Bennett would never be a fit here. He is someone the Oilers should pursue next offseason though, sign Leon and McDavid, give away Kane or add an asset to get rid of him and sign Bennett.

[flambers]

Bennett would have fit in, to win team's need players like him

Flames miss-managed Bennett, and basically made poor decisions.

I can't see Bennett signing with a Canadian team,

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

Dreger was on Barn Burner last week.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1793776852026503648

Seems like ownership didn't want to call it a season.

“There’s been suspicion that ownership got involved” is information anyone could have got from reading CP… are you taking this sound bite as some sort of confirmation of a fact?

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

“There’s been suspicion that ownership got involved” is information anyone could have got from reading CP… are you taking this sound bite as some sort of confirmation of a fact?

Well I was talking about Dreger saying something similar a couple months ago. He is careful to choose his words to not get his cousin in trouble.... but its seems ownership overstepped their boundary yet again.

We wanted to go on a cup run after losing 3 of our top players. And then we proceeded to lose like 8 straight right after the deadline showing once again that our ownership are a bunch of clowns.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

I mean unless your team is Vegas you expect most players to play during the regular season. Bennett is a bulldog for 28 or less games a year and otherwise forgettable for the other 82.

The regular season does not mean crap. Ask Mitch Marner and Elias Petterson right now if they would have rather played well in the playoffs or regular season.

All that matters is playoffs. Nobody cares how good you are when it doesn't matter.

[Ashasx]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

“There’s been suspicion that ownership got involved” is information anyone could have got from reading CP… are you taking this sound bite as some sort of confirmation of a fact?

I just don't think that is something Dreger would say if he didn't believe it was a likelihood given that his cousin is our AGM, and historically Dreger has been very accurate when Nonis is involved.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

“There’s been suspicion that ownership got involved” is information anyone could have got from reading CP… are you taking this sound bite as some sort of confirmation of a fact?

We’ll never get any level of confirmation on anything like this though.

Dreger is not the only who has mentioned this.

Just go back and look at the pathetic press conference last year where John Bean steps in and effectively talks over Don Maloney about the state of the team - there was pretty clear involvement from at least the Bean level as to how to approach the 23/24 season.

To me, the fact that Bean is gone gives me a touch of hope that perhaps things will be different at that level going forward.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

I just don't think that is something Dreger would say if he didn't believe it was a likelihood given that his cousin is our AGM, and historically Dreger has been very accurate when Nonis is involved.

Yeah, if came down to not wanting to retain for two years then at least I get it but if it’s actually true they wanted to make a playoff off run then yuck

[Toonage]

If I recall, and this may have been Dreger's first interview about it around the deadline, but he said ownership/management "didn't want to send the wrong message" to the team by trading away Markstrom.

Which is hilarious given they traded all of their UFAs as promised at the start of the year which pretty much crippled the team given 3 of them were D.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

The regular season does not mean crap. Ask Mitch Marner and Elias Petterson right now if they would have rather played well in the playoffs or regular season.

All that matters is playoffs. Nobody cares how good you are when it doesn't matter.

Yet Marner and Petterson make way more money than Bennett. So, someone cares.