The Rangers are in win now mode. Why would they trade Laf for draft picks? Makes zero sense.
No one said only draft picks
Futures = young help now + picks
Did Bern make the Laf trade yet? If not he can probably ask for more after his 3 goal 5 piint night.
thanks for asking
bern has had to get some real world shit under control
everything pushed back a wk ish
Hello moderators. Question: is the trade proposal board supposed to be where fans from Team A propose a trade for player X, get told no thanks, then throw a weird tantrum and argue that player X is actually trash? And then it repeats ad nauseum for 13 pages?
Is there anything of any merit going on here?
Habs fans (initially) wanted Laf. NYR fans said take a hike. It's over. Why is the dumpster fire thread still open?
The prob here is peeps on both sides responding in overheated emotional fashion which given OP premise* is unnecessary.
Mr. Spock? paging Mr. Spock...
* OP is basically saying, correctly, it is history that if Orr/Gretzky etc can be dealt anyone can get traded. So we realize there are certain realities with cost of LaF being a premium. He is not a McDavid w/decent term remaining level acquisition, which prompts how is any deal possible not gutting the acquiring team?
But LaF IS a premium requiring overpayment.
This is a guy who was evaluated as the best non generational 1OA since MacKinnon.
While there was an issue coupla yrs while his skating got resolved to NHL level? yes. Is that no longer a concern? Obviously also yes.
LaF is one of the best 5 on 5 players in NHL.
While we would like to see his conversion rate even higher, it is not too shabby for someone making me look good by EXACTLY hitting an early Steve Vickers projection of 25ish Gs this season, and 30 is not out of the question just yet.
His pt totals are w/negligible PP mins.
So yeah, NMCs aside, anyone can be had if there is enuf on the table.
OP and those curious out of intellectual honesty should not suffer deterioration of this thread just b'c they do not want to play along.
No ?, LaF will require overpayment in currency NY wants.
The ? is whatever that is, is it something MON can live with?
It is a fair ?, and peeps of good faith can agree to disagree.