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zerofox:
While I'm afraid of another Forsberg situation where Bura goes somewhere else and kicks ass while we're stuck with underperforming assets in return, I do think we just have a greater need on defense and the Bura experiment hasn't really panned out, so perhaps it is time to trade him. Vrana is coming along quite nicely and makes me quite confident in the top 6. And I think a guy like Stephenson can do just fine on the 3rd line. There's not much room for Bura and not at $3 million a year.
Meanwhile our defense gives me concern. We have 4 guys I'm pretty comfortable with (yes I know they make their fair share of mistakes), but the bottom six is a combination of rookies/Orpik, which worries me.
Bura for a defensive player would bring a bit more balance to our team
PUCKNRUSH:
Trading Bura doesn’t do anything to help our D woes, of course, but it doesn’t hurt our defensive problems either! It’s a totally separate issue!!
Defensive help is our #1 priority, to be sure, but THAT issue, doesn’t mean we don’t try to make other moves, of a lesser priority, when available!!
The timing of trade deal availability, is rarely in sequence with any teams order of prioritized needs! You basically take ‘em when you can get ‘em, if the timing SO HAPPENS to line up with a need!
Bura’s overall level of play, over several seasons, suggests to me that he is UNLIKELY to blossom later, as he has been given a BOATLOAD of quite varied opportunities, under different coaches AND with varied lines and combinations!!
IMO, he has been extended opportunities, uniquely longer and more numerous than most younger players ever get! Most likely due to the individual raw talent he certainly possesses, but unfortunately shows itself in such roller coaster waves, and with no real rhyme or reason to pin point ANY predictability as to a pattern of when it MAY show itself!!
This leaves his coaches BAFFLED, as to what works to bring his potential out!! This is a far worse dilemma, for a coach, again IMO, than if a guy were to just completely suck! Hell that’s easy!
Of course, if this rumor is true, you trade him! Since Bura is more of a loner type player, his positive playing moments DO help the line he’s playing on somewhat, but when he’s at his negative periods, his harm to the line he plays on, is of a deeper degree, and does not equally offset his positive times!!
Personally I don’t think Bura has the mental wherewithal to play in the NHL.
So we will still have a defense priority number one issue, existing until the trade deadline. That won’t change whether Bura is here or not!
Rush
PUCKNRUSH:
--- Quote from: zerofox on Saturday January 05, 2019, 09:19:27 PM Eastern ---While I'm afraid of another Forsberg situation where Bura goes somewhere else and kicks ass while we're stuck with underperforming assets in return, I do think we just have a greater need on defense and the Bura experiment hasn't really panned out, so perhaps it is time to trade him. Vrana is coming along quite nicely and makes me quite confident in the top 6. And I think a guy like Stephenson can do just fine on the 3rd line. There's not much room for Bura and not at $3 million a year.
Meanwhile our defense gives me concern. We have 4 guys I'm pretty comfortable with (yes I know they make their fair share of mistakes), but the bottom six is a combination of rookies/Orpik, which worries me.
Bura for a defensive player would bring a bit more balance to our team
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Couple of good points Zero!!👍👍
ABSOLUTELY, Bura for a defenseman would kill two birds with one stone, potentially!
AND, The Vrana/Bura individual growth situations, is the PERFECT comparison/contrast for one player who DOES respond, after coaching corrections, and one who DOES NOT!!
It’s a “poster boy” example, that illuminates well, the upside, and downside stories, of young player growth in the NHL!!
Rush
Mickstix:
Unfortunately, this team never does anything proactively.. They'll hold Burt too long (past the deadline) then he'll walk next year when they can't justify a 3 mil offer.. Only thing that changes that, imo, is if things go way off the rails between now and the deadline.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: zerofox on Saturday January 05, 2019, 09:19:27 PM Eastern ---While I'm afraid of another Forsberg situation where Bura goes somewhere else and kicks ass while we're stuck with underperforming assets in return, I do think we just have a greater need on defense and the Bura experiment hasn't really panned out, so perhaps it is time to trade him. Vrana is coming along quite nicely and makes me quite confident in the top 6. And I think a guy like Stephenson can do just fine on the 3rd line. There's not much room for Bura and not at $3 million a year.
Meanwhile our defense gives me concern. We have 4 guys I'm pretty comfortable with (yes I know they make their fair share of mistakes), but the bottom six is a combination of rookies/Orpik, which worries me.
Bura for a defensive player would bring a bit more balance to our team
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Even if he went somewhere else, so what? FFF wasn’t gonna amount to jack shit here anway. The reason he gets the points he does is he plays Ovies role for Nashville, not because he’s a 200ft solid player. He would probably just be another Bura here.
However, given his current performance, and GMBetaMales (who voted for the FFF trade BTW), ability, were gonna end up on the short end of this, probably an older veteran with ANOTHER shitty contact
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