Habs interested in Cammalleri?

[blny]

franko said:

blny said:

We're not hard on Sammy cause he's Russian. We're hard on him because we expect more.

I disagree. It's not that we expect more, it's that we expect something! [OK, something more ;D]

That's splitting hairs more than Guy LaFleur at a Hairfax convention. ;D

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

skilly said:

I would not do the Cammalleri deal for ohhh so many reasons. Let's compare the two shall we?

Cammalleri:
Age: 24
Seasons: in his 4th
Goals: 55
Assists: 59
Points: 114
Number of 20 goal seasons: 1
Number of 30 goal seasons: 0
Games Played: 182 (2 seasons where he played 28 and 31 games)
Games Missed in Professional career: 105
Average season: 46 GP - 13G - 13A - 26pts


Ryder:
Age: 26
Seasons: in his 3rd
Goals: 66
Assists: 79
Points: 145
Number of 20 goal seasons: 2
Number of 30 goal seasons: 1
Games Played: 204
Games missed in professional career: 2
Average season: 81GP - 27G - 32A - 59pts


I must be daft .... but it seems obvious to me who the better commodity is.

I like the Doan/Reinprecht deal better. Nothing says we have to play Reinprecht over Plekanec. But I am not sure that deal is feasible from a cap perspective:

Doan + Reinprecht = 5.192

Ryder + Niinimaa = 4.67 (assuming Danis is shipped to the AHL)

We'd be adding another $250,000 ... ok so it is doable. That's the one I would do ... if we trade Ryder, we need a first liner, not a trash heap second line hopeful ... neglect Reinprecht, I consider him much the same as Niinimaa. A toss in to get the cap and other problems, figured out. It is basically a Doan for Ryder package and yes I would do that, especially if we are looking at a pick in the 20's.

On draft day we could always try and trade Price if we wanted a certain player high in the draft anyway.

Doan
Age: 30
Seasons: in his 11th
Goals: 183
Assists: 256
Points: 439
Number of 20 goal seasons: 6
Number of 30 goal seasons: 1
Games Played: 762
Games missed in professional career: 76
Average season: 73GP - 17G - 25A - 42pts

However, Doan first four season were terrible. You neglect those and count his last 6 seasons he averages: 80GP - 25G - 34A - 59pts
Well, I'll be ... same as Ryder's. Now that is called traded like assests. Only difference is, Ryder didn't have Gretzky's friendship to get him invitations to represent Canada.

If you're daft, save a straight jacket for me. Ryder is the better player. Cammalleri is just what the team needs, another little guy to go with Samsonov, Perezhogin, Plekanec, Streit, Bouillion and Grabovski. We have Locke in Hamilton if we really need to get smaller. Our "Big Guy", Steve Begin isn't 6' tall either. We need to go back to the standing room days at the Forum instead of the LA Fabulous forum and go back to big Forum hot dogs instead of LA Calamari.