Rumors Thread

[Akakabuto 1,842]

 

 

edit: nevermind... need to block that account

 

phew

Edited June 28, 2024 by Akakabuto

[diehardredwingsfan58 164]

Steven Stamkos, You're a Detroit Red Wing.

[town123 231]

Ah please no

 

[diehardredwingsfan58 164]

1 hour ago, Akakabuto said:

 

 

edit: nevermind... need to block that account

 

phew

Yeah that;s the fake Friedman account on Twitter

[Akakabuto 1,842]

11 minutes ago, diehardredwingsfan58 said:

Yeah that;s the fake Friedman account on Twitter

yup, noticed the HINC instead of HNIC after I posted

[Jimmybigrigs69 366]

9 minutes ago, Akakabuto said:

yup, noticed the HINC instead of HNIC after I posted

Don't doubt the power of troll magic, or the connection between one steve and another. The Mankos will be a wing. 

[Akakabuto 1,842]

Trouba a Wing

[LeftWinger 5,129]

45 minutes ago, Akakabuto said:

Trouba a Wing

https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2024/06/report-rangers-red-wings-working-on.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1az34OyH-q7jUjPKAbExMqfydUiWkVOZgSaONe6BU6NEH_jd2nIG6A7s0_aem_x_j3C2rbWg5aNrh8I-awMQ&m=1

 

According to Larry Brooks, yes he will be.

[Motor City Mullets 303]

50 minutes ago, Akakabuto said:

Trouba a Wing

Yeah - HF boards active this morning - more than likely this will go down today...I like the idea of adding some violence back on to our blueline - especially when we face Ottawa.

[LeftWinger 5,129]

It'd be nice if they could still add Chychrun too! But I think they re-sign Ghost and add Edvinsson and Johansson to fill out the D corps. 

Edvinsson-Seider 

Ghost-Trouba

Chiarot-Petry

Maatta-Johansson as the extras.

 

The forward group would need some tweets. Stamkos would help that! It would great if they could add him and Kane.

[Motor City Mullets 303]

10 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2024/06/report-rangers-red-wings-working-on.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1az34OyH-q7jUjPKAbExMqfydUiWkVOZgSaONe6BU6NEH_jd2nIG6A7s0_aem_x_j3C2rbWg5aNrh8I-awMQ&m=1

 

According to Larry Brooks, yes he will be.

'Blockbuster'...Hmm - what else might be involved other than Trouba?

[LeftWinger 5,129]

1 minute ago, Motor City Mullets said:

'Blockbuster'...Hmm - what else might be involved other than Trouba?

I was thinking the same. I honestly wouldn't mind obtaining Roslavic's UFA rights before Monday. I sure would like them to retain 50% of Trouba. Maybe the blockbuster includes a 3-way with another team retaining the 50%?

[Axl Foley 334]

15 hours ago, Akakabuto said:

yup, noticed the HINC instead of HNIC after I posted

That is a Colin move.

[diehardredwingsfan58 164]

Wow Tampa trades Sergachev to Utah, So it's sounding like Steven Stamkos will remain in Tampa.

[town123 231]

And Jeannot to Kings for way less than they  originally paid to acquire him.

[GMRwings1983 8,803]

1 hour ago, diehardredwingsfan58 said:

Wow Tampa trades Sergachev to Utah, So it's sounding like Steven Stamkos will remain in Tampa.

Utah?  He's going to play basketball now?  

[Akakabuto 1,842]

51 minutes ago, GMRwings1983 said:

Utah?  He's going to play basketball now?  

its a soccer club

[diehardredwingsfan58 164]

1 hour ago, GMRwings1983 said:

Utah?  He's going to play basketball now?  

Probably both.

[Axl Foley 334]

43 minutes ago, Akakabuto said:

its a soccer club

HC does not stand for Soccer Club. I thought CRL made that clear.

[Akakabuto 1,842]

44 minutes ago, Axl Foley said:

HC does not stand for Soccer Club. I thought CRL made that clear.

We listen to CRL now?!

[LeftWinger 5,129]

They say Tampa in hot pursuit of Guentzel, so there goes the cap they cleared. Welcome to Detroit Steven Stamkos!

[town123 231]

4 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

They say Tampa in hot pursuit of Guentzel, so there goes the cap they cleared. Welcome to Detroit Steven Stamkos!

I hope not.   What is Stamkos, Kane or Trouba really going to add?     I'm hoping we go after anyone that plays a 200' game and is ornery.     I'd rather see AJo, Kasper, Mazur and Berggren getting their feet wet this year before Cossa starts his domination tour.

[Axl Foley 334]

3 minutes ago, town123 said:

I hope not.   What is Stamkos, Kane or Trouba really going to add?     I'm hoping we go after anyone that plays a 200' game and is ornery.     I'd rather see AJo, Kasper, Mazur and Berggren getting their feet wet this year before Cossa starts his domination tour.

All of these kids need playoff experience. Came close last season, and adding rookies isn't going to get them over the hump. Adding guys like Kane, Stamkos, and Trouba will. 

[Jimmybigrigs69 366]

9 hours ago, Axl Foley said:

That is a Colin move.

Aren't you the guy that thought Yzerman takes his scouting orders from NHL central scouting? Lol

[Dabura 12,230]

2 hours ago, Axl Foley said:

All of these kids need playoff experience. Came close last season, and adding rookies isn't going to get them over the hump. Adding guys like Kane, Stamkos, and Trouba will. 

Agreed.

Playoffs are the expectation now. Rookies can play, but they won't be asked to shoulder the burden of those expectations. Problem is, we discovered this team lives and dies based on one single veteran leader (Larkin). So that has to be addressed. And it seems Yzermanager's pretty hellbent on doing just that. Which makes me happy. Goaltending's also crucial, but maybe not as important as giving this team some more leadership and steadiness and confidence and swagger. (Though, I guess that and goaltending aren't exactly mutually exclusive.)

I mean, sure - ideally we have a superstar prospect kicking down the door and/or we add Guentzel and Roy. But we don't have the former, and I don't get the sense that we've become a realistic destination for non-flawed marquee UFAs. So we have to work with what's actually available. And, with the collapse at the front of our minds, that means (flawed) leaders like the captain of the Rangers and the captain of the Lightning.

Does Trouba suck? Yeah, kinda.

Is Stamkos - at this stage of his career - a power play specialist who's gonna take exactly zero reps at center because he can't play defense? Yeah, I suppose.

But there's a human element to this. We saw it in small bursts with Kane. If you put *STEVEN STAMKOS* in our top 6 (which means no Kane, realistically), that's what I call "introducing exotic energy" - and I'd expect the team to respond in a positive way, like with Kane. Even if all he's doing is helping the power play, that could be enough to get us into the playoffs. We're not getting into the playoffs without solid special teams.

Trouba's big and physical and dirty. This sounds like cope, but, honestly, we could use some big and physical and dirty. He's not gonna beat you into a pulp, but I'd like to think there's a bit of a Kronwall factor where players don't feel 100% comfortable crossing our blue line or going into our corners because there's a possibility you'll catch a cement elbow from a psychopath (or his 6'6 D partner will sit on you). I know "being hard to play against" in "the new NHL" means you have real good fancy stats - but there's still a place for "Hey, my teammate just leveled that guy who took a shot at our captain and now I wanna level someone too. Let's f***ing go, I'm scoring the OT winner!" Hockey is still a game of momentum swings. Little things still matter. In the age of parity, I'd argue they matter as much as they ever have. (See: missing out on the playoffs because of a tiebreaker.)

tl;dr F*** this league, we're gonna do a sequel to the 2002 team one way or another. F***ing candy-ass cap league.

Edited June 30, 2024 by Dabura