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BlackIce:
--- Quote from: alta on Thursday February 07, 2019, 10:05:02 PM Eastern ---
your account was opened from a MD location so I know this isn't Maaco.
Why can't I be serious? I don't see an $8M a year player in Carlson.
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Phaneuf isn't a $7 player any more, let alone a $7 million player. Lots of hockey players reach a point where they lose what capabilities they had and fall off the map. Phaneuf is seemingly in that death spiral now. No GM with ANY sanity would trade Carlson for him straight up.
alta:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Friday February 08, 2019, 08:07:03 AM Eastern ---
Phaneuf isn't a $7 player any more, let alone a $7 million player. Lots of hockey players reach a point where they lose what capabilities they had and fall off the map. Phaneuf is seemingly in that death spiral now. No GM with ANY sanity would trade Carlson for him straight up.
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There is a reason none of us are GMs. That doesn't mean we can't have a valid opinion. I have noticed I'm not the only one that feels this way about Carlson, yet for some reason I am the only one that gets called out for having a low opinion of him. Has Carlson looked like an $8M a year player this season? My opinion is not even remotely. Which makes it an even trade for someone who would be a lower cap hit that actually plays defense. If not an even trade, how else do you get rid of an over payed player?
4 Caps:
So what you are saying is that we should trade a defenseman who many people who follow hockey closely consider to be one of the top 5 or 6 defenseman in the entire league for a defenseman who isn’t even one of the top 6 defenseman for a team that has one of the worse records in the league. That makes a lot of sense, not.
DC_1908:
here’s a compromise then:
Carlson for Bret Burns straight up. Salaries are even, but SJS would hang up the phone on us
Burns is a not only superior Dman but a superior total player to Carlson.
And it’s more than his 10points more. it’s that he actually plays D, and generally excellently. He’s also a physical specimen at 6”5 230
At 8mil. Burns is a STEAL.
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