Bantering Points: Sean Avery And More

They are eventually going to trade some of the worthless old veterans like Rolston, Jurcina & Pandolfo and bring up some more youth. Would probably like something like this to help stay at cap floor given salary difference of who is coming and going.

My guess is Vancouver for no reason except they want to try to be even more annoying to play against.

Also Slats refusing to do the re-entry wire thing tells me that he is keeping cap space to possibly make a trade at deadline.

May not seem fair to Aves, but I completely understand what Slats is doing here… and I support it.

It’s going to be 2030 and somehow we’re still going to have stories revolving around Sean Avery’s irritable bowel syndrome.

I would rather go for Iggy. fits the style of NYR better. He would probably cost more, although Darth Sather has already raped CAL this year (see Erixon, Tim). i hope both these guys get moved to a contender. they have been buried in shitty franchises their whole career. Iginla is a 500 goal scorer that lots of people never heard of becuase he plays in Calgary

Colorado and Nashville.

A close friend in the NHL office here in NYC, called me this morning and says its these two teams.

She mentioned that Nashville is the closer, and the deal is asking for $1 million back. Aves would go for Smithson, straight up.

Question…

Do you see something strange getting ready to happening surrounding potential trades?? Almost like we’re building up to the CBA going the players’ way.

For example: Rumors are on NHL.com that the Flyers and Leafs could move Van Reimsdyk and Brayden Schenn for Luke Schenn. Big deal…yes. Because Luke Schenn just signed a five year extension with the Leafs, and Van Reimsdyk is an RFA at season’s end.

Thoughts??

…….I would certainly take him if for no other reason than to make our power play better. It is the Achilles Heel of the Blueshirts this season (once again), and as good as Brad Richards is, he’s not the reason the power play struggles. In this league, you need big bodies crashing the net.

Doan would add to Callahan, Dubinsky, and Boyle as big guys to clog the slot during the PP. Its one more guy to make the mentality of the team that more physical.

That being said, I don’t want to give up any future for him.

If he was traded here, I wonder if he and Callahan would get along? I assume their physical battles in the last two games were simply the result of two captains who play the same way clashing, and not something deeper. They’re cut from the same mold though, and in all likelihood they’ll get along just fine.

I like Shane Doan; another interesting tidbit on him; when he was a kid in western Canada, his family was tight with the one and only Johnny Cash. So Shane Doan knew him when he was a kid, which automatically makes him cooler, lol.