When you consider that Bergevin signed him to a 4 year contract extension just 6 months earlier, it may have been necessary to save his own ass.
Calgary still seems like the best bet to get Drouin to me if he isn't moved by the deadline - if Calgary's draft pick winds up in the 5-8 range that may wind up being the best Yzerman can get for him and he could do much worse. In exchange, Calgary gets a guy who should be capable of 20g/50 pts next season.
Well, are you comparing him to Dubinsky? Because at this point I'd rather have Dubinsky.
Nope. I think there are too many teams who think this could be their year for a run.
Nope. I think there are too many teams who think this could be their year for a run.
Consider that if you assume Washington is destined for the conference finals no matter what, you can make the argument that any of the Atlantic Division teams can consider themselves capable of being their opponent. Not one team that will come out of that division has stuck out; I expect all of them to try and improve somehow.
LA and Chicago both are within their Cup windows still and both have needs so I expect they'll both be active. Argument can be made that 3 other teams in the west (STL, Dallas, Anaheim) have reason to believe they can keep up with those two so they'll all be looking for something (scoring for STL and Anaheim, defence for Dallas).
That right there is about a third of the league looking for additions. Then you get into teams that think with the right move or two they can move into a contention conversation - Pittsburgh, the Isles and Nashville could all conceivably be in that conversation, while teams like Minny, SJ and NYR need to figure out whether they're in it or not.
I think we'll get some good action
Carolina is 6-2-2 in their past ten. Eric Staal has 2 pts in that span and 6 in his past 19.
I think JVR would help the Pens big time when healthy but I don't think Pittsburgh has any more assets to give the Leafs lol
