2024/2025 Season trade rumours and speculation thread

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Huberdeau would absolutely have to be part of any trade for Petterson.

Then there is zero chance a trade would get done.

Teams would be all over Petterson. Vancouver would not need to take the largest cap dump to do that trade.

[metroneck]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Being a DB to a teammate because you can doesn’t make you an animal and passionate. It just makes you an #######.

Coaches get fired for treating players like that, players should be held to the same standard if they are treating teammates like that.

I think this had something to do with JT’s little mid-season break.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

They are 0-4 because they are also missing their best player Hughes. Add in that their 2 nd best dman is also.

Not to mention the circus that is currently going on

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Flames1217

Where would we play him at the moment though?

He's been relegated to NJ's third line. Do I think he is a third line player? Absolutely not!

At the moment our top 6 RW'ers are Pospisil and Coronato. Pospisil has shown chemistry with Hubey and Kadri and I have very little interest splitting them up. Long term having Coronato learn how to become a top 6 player from both Backs and Coleman is great for his development and for this team long term.

Throwing him on the third line also becomes slightly problematic as he would be where he is right now in Jersey and either of Pelletier or Sharky would need to drop down a line. Sharky isn't a fourth liner and shouldn't be anywhere near a fourth line. Pelts can play there and has shown to be effective there in the past but this wouldn't be providing the opportunity for Mercer to pop.

I would love to have him on the team but for this to happen Pospisil would need to no longer be effective in a top 6 role as he would need to be in the top 6. No point to bring him in to be a bottom 6 player.

If you can acquire a player like Mercer at a reasonable price that you can live with, you do it. Where he fits on the current lines is largely irrelevant - you're acquiring him to be part of the future core you're building.

(that's why I am not keen on acquiring Pettersson - he will be old before a decent core can be assembled)

[BigThief]

In the hockey bro culture being a loner isn't ideal for the rest of them but it's not something that should split a team. Maybe TJ Miller shouldn't have been a dink to a 22 year old player (going by Brad Richardson) and been more supportive. Loner doesn't mean bad teammate. And on a roster of 23+ players and hundreds of staff and support staff not everyone will be the same and get along.

Make it work.

[Sec214]

[saillias]

^I watched the LOTR trilogy during Christmas. I was surprised how well it held up for something filmed in 1999-2000, it is better than the Amazon show by a mile and the battles were executed so much better than anything recent like Game of Thrones.

[Toonage]

But did it lend any insight into potential trades

[Sec214]

Originally Posted by Toonage

But did it lend any insight into potential trades

[Roof-Daddy]

Trading for a hobbit?

Marco Rossi?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

Then there is zero chance a trade would get done.

Teams would be all over Petterson. Vancouver would not need to take the largest cap dump to do that trade.

That’s fine by me, I’m not huge on a guy like Petterson who has difficulty in the playoffs.

[iloveicedhockey]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Clearly JT Miller and Petterson are going on a team building exercise. In Edmonton.

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by saillias

So the knock against EP is he doesn't want to hang out with his coworkers off the clock? I relate to this man then. Isn't the practice time, video time, game days, morning skates, charity events, flights, road trips, enough? They want his free, non-contractually obligated time too?

Right?


Combined with a MAGA/Thin Blue Line idiot asshat bullying him making a workplace toxic combined with the media and fans.


He’s an introvert who doesn’t share in the “Bro / Spittin Chiclets” culture.

I’d request a trade out too.

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Garland is going to Modor (Edmonton)?

[1qqaaz]

Someone will take one step farther from home than they've ever been before?

[Redrum]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Leaving home for 1st time. Andersson going.

[Pickle Juice]

Originally Posted by Sec214

2 flames players leaving the prairies heading to a mountain community (Vancouver)???

[Badgers Nose]

The Fellowship must remain intact.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

That’s fine by me, I’m not huge on a guy like Petterson who has difficulty in the playoffs.

He had one poor playoff out of two years. And that poor playoff was proceeded by a poor year.

[Fan69]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Were taking the hobbits to isengard?