Marco Rossi on the market

[Willie Dog]

Saw this and thought do we need another small forward? Might cost us the Jets pick plus?

www.habsfanatics.com/nhl/trades/a-major-trade-is-shaping-up-between-the-canadiens-and-the-wild

[seventeen]

I doubt Minny is in the market to trade Rossi. He had injury issues his first post draft years, but seemed to be putting it together last year. I also doubt Montreal does that. They have placed an emphasis on size, and while Newhook is not big at 5' 11", he's very solid at 200 lbs. I liked Rossi a lot in his draft year, but he was a very early birthday (Sept 23) so would be the same age as Newhook at the start of the season despite being drafted a year later. they'd be in competition and would probably cost Montreal more than just Winnipeg's pick. Still, if Rossi has grown beyond the stats on hockeydb, that would be a deal worth considering. Jets pick plus a less prominent LHD prospect. We might go for a dman at pick #5 in that scenario, but this 'deal' is not a rumour, just a guy spitballing. Not the worst thing I've heard.

Had the strangest 'debate' with a guy on Twitter over the NBA draft. The Raptors traded their pick last year to San Antonio, but it had been top 6 protected. The lottery balls moved it to 8 from 6. Before the lottery the guy was trying to convince me that because (this is a weak draft, really weak in fact) there was no consensus around the top, you could get a #1 pick at #6. I tried telling him that even pick #6 in this draft might be pick number 15 or worse next year (a strong draft year). He was convinced that if TO kept the pick, it would be like getting a #1 pick, even next year. I decided to stop responding because Carlo Cipolla's theorem on Human Stupidity keeps gathering evidence. No wonder the world is a mess. It's still not fair that I get only one vote, same as that guy.

[jkr]

I wonder why they would consider moving him. He still has a year left on his entry level deal and he's under team control. I imagine the Wild's cap situation is tight after the buyouts. They should be hanging on to young, cheap 20 goal scorers.

[folatre]

Minnesota needs good centers. Minnesota has almost zero cap space next year thanks to the Suter and Parise buyouts. Why would trading a young center who is still on his cheap ELC a priority for Billy Guerin?

Yes, the Wild are kind of stuck. They are certainly not a good team, but they are not terrible. And the aggravation is that with no cap space they can really only depend on kids graduating up from Iowa to change the composition of their team. But essentially trading Rossi who proved that he can play in the league for futures and maybe some sort of the decent roster player from the Habs does not really unstick them from the mud.

[Cranky]

The off season is way more interesting then in season.

I don't know what to make of a Rossi trade. Size and bad hair days matter in the playoffs. Rossi 47 PIMs don't make him an angel, but neither does his 180 pounds compete with big and heavy playoff teams. Also if he moves to the 60 point range, he's going to need a 7x8 to keep him.

I rather go all in on a Fantilli clone far more then a nother smallish center.

[Polarice]

Big pass on this one....we want to get bigger, tougher....as we're seeing, we need big forwards to push us through the playoffs.

[seventeen]

I don't think the Wild are considering trading Rossi. It's just a guy throwing out a possibility, like we do all the time.