Brent Burns to SJS

[pixburgher66]

You guys are killin' me! Sheesh, I get back from a long night of work and you don't even have all the trades listed in separate threads? SLACKERS.


(As I say all of this, I guarantee that I somehow missed the thread and will eat a heaping pile of crow).

 

[flyersfan4706]

MEGA BLOCKBUSTER WITH THE SHARKS AND WILD: DEAL OF THE MILLENIUM!!! DONT MISS THIS THREAD!!!

Tricked ya

 

[pixburgher66]

 

[rares]

Aww.... no "for Setoguchi+Coyle" at end of thread title?

I'm still fuming about this one... Dougie gave up WAY too much when he could have just re-signed Ian White instead of letting him walk.

Makes Holmgren's moves the other day look like pure fucking genius mastermind shit, IMO!

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

What the heck were the Sharks thinking? They gave up too much.

 

[KillerVee]

I.....am not pleased.

 

[rares]

Our GM is an idiot, what can you do... ):

But yay, we still have Dany Fuckin' Heatley and his $7M cap hit!

 

[pixburgher66]

Burns will kill it in SJS, but...Seto in Minny? He's gonna be a star. Agreed, far to much for BOOOOO-urns.

 

[rares]

The Hockey News: Ken Campbell's Column: Campbell: Brent Burns trade moves Sharks closer to Stanley Cup

“They just hit a home run,” Babcock said of the Sharks. “That’s a gold medal pick. I’m pissed off.”

Yeah, Mike... I'm pissed off too. Our GM is a fucking idiot.

Any truth to this Burns dude being one concussion away from being done playing hockey? I'm not too familiar with his injury history...

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I still think the Sharks win out in this one. Burns will be an absolute stud. Seto will be a nice player, who knows about the prospects. Besides, you guys have offense so you could afford to lose a bit.

 

[dash]

Maybe I rate Brent Burns too highly, but the Sharks definitely needed to upgrade the backend and they accomplished that with this trade. They paid a significant price to get him, but I think it will turn out to be well worth it.

 

[li0lsh]

rares pissed off with the Sharks?

well there is something new

 

[Darkstone42]

I think it's a good trade for both sides. From the San Jose perspective, at least, they dealt from a position of strength to upgrade a position of weakness. Trading Setoguchi, while hard to do, doesn't really open a new hole in the Sharks' lineup. For the Wild, they added a piece to aid an anemic offense.

You have to give up talent to get talent. Both sides did that here.

 

[Destroydacre]

Maybe I rate Brent Burns too highly, but the Sharks definitely needed to upgrade the backend and they accomplished that with this trade. They paid a significant price to get him, but I think it will turn out to be well worth it.

Worth it if the Sharks win a cup within the next couple of years. If not...well the Sharks only have 2 first round picks still in the organization since the lockout so once Thornton and Marleau et al start showing their age, there's not much of a future for this team.

 

[dash]

Worth it if the Sharks win a cup within the next couple of years. If not...well the Sharks only have 2 first round picks still in the organization since the lockout so once Thornton and Marleau et al start showing their age, there's not much of a future for this team.

The Sharks are in a tough situation, obviously, they're still a very good team, so you can't "blow it up" (hate that phrase, by the way), so you're left to re-tooling in the hopes that it will pan out. I still think Doug Wilson is in the uper echelon of GM's in the league and I like this trade.

 

[puckhead]

I don't think we know for sure who wins this trade until next summer.
As of now, i think SJ paid a hell of a lot for Burns, but it could be much worse:


Setoguchi just signed a 3 year deal.
Coyle and a 1st are decent long term assets as well.

Brent Burns is a UFA next july 1. They could end up with 1 season, then nothing.

 

[IPostedWhat]

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

The Sharks are in a tough situation, obviously, they're still a very good team, so you can't "blow it up" (hate that phrase, by the way), so you're left to re-tooling in the hopes that it will pan out. I still think Doug Wilson is in the uper echelon of GM's in the league and I like this trade.

Hmm.. Blow it up. Isn't that what the Flyers did to a team that was in the Stanley Cup Finals a year ago?