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Post by Forum Ghost on Feb 24, 2007 23:16:31 GMT -5
TSN - The Atlanta Thrashers have made a move to bolster their blueline for a playoff run, acquiring veteran Alexei Zhitnik from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for top defence prospect Braydon Coburn. www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=197567&hubname=nhl* Wow, Zhitnik (with 23 pts this season) gets traded for a top D prospect. For those who are unfamiliar with Coburn, he's 21 years old, 6'5", 220 lbs and is projected to be a top four blueliner. He was selected 8th overall in the 2003 Draft. Now just imagine what Souray (with 51 pts this season) could fetch...
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Post by CentreHice on Feb 24, 2007 23:25:50 GMT -5
FG....I doubt Gainey does anything of such substance.
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Post by MC Habber on Feb 25, 2007 1:01:02 GMT -5
Imagine trading Souray for a similar return and then resigning him in the summer to a home-town discount. I'm dreaming of course.
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Post by PTH on Feb 25, 2007 1:06:46 GMT -5
Imagine trading Souray for a similar return and then resigning him in the summer to a home-town discount. I'm dreaming of course. I think Zhitnik isn't a rental though - he's signed through next season. Still, given the kind of season Souray is having, you never know. |
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Post by jkr on Feb 25, 2007 7:35:36 GMT -5
Imagine trading Souray for a similar return and then resigning him in the summer to a home-town discount. I'm dreaming of course. I think Zhitnik isn't a rental though - he's signed through next season. Still, given the kind of season Souray is having, you never know. according to hockeybuzz.com he has 2 years left. See the bottom of the link. www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=5767 |
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Post by Doc Holliday on Feb 25, 2007 7:57:25 GMT -5
Imagine trading Souray for a similar return and then resigning him in the summer to a home-town discount. I'm dreaming of course. I think Zhitnik isn't a rental though - he's signed through next season. Still, given the kind of season Souray is having, you never know. Yeah, I have my doubts that our rentals would net a prospect like Coburn. Good move by Atlanta who's trying to stop a nasty skid... |
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Post by jkr on Feb 25, 2007 9:08:46 GMT -5
I think Zhitnik isn't a rental though - he's signed through next season. Still, given the kind of season Souray is having, you never know. Yeah, I have my doubts that our rentals would net a prospect like Coburn. Good move by Atlanta who's trying to stop a nasty skid... Yes and as PTH points out, Zhitnik is not a rental. He has 2 years left. Atlanta probably would not have given up Coburn to get Souray/Markov etc for a couple of months. |
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Post by Cranky on Feb 25, 2007 12:06:12 GMT -5
Imagine trading Souray for a similar return and then resigning him in the summer to a home-town discount. I'm dreaming of course. Are you dreaming? Mr. Waffles would take 6 months to come to that conclusion. On thing that I have learned. Trades are NOT long term drawn out affairs. They last about THREE telephone calls and by the third one, it's either yay or nay. There isn't the long protracted course that rumour mills want us to think. More often then not, any information you do get lands up being misinformation foam either source....or plain speculation by bored media. This speculation of a trade with the Pigeons means nothing. Even if I knew the GM of the Pigeons, (I don't) in the time they negotiate who and what and finalized it, it would be fact before it would be rumor. The only thing that failed rumours with substance have and is interesting to me, would be "who" was available. |
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Post by Anardil1 on Feb 25, 2007 15:13:36 GMT -5
Never been a fan of Coburn. Granted, I've only seen him play at the WJC and a few times since making the NHL. Frankly, and I'm not being a homer, Komisarek is better now, and will be at the end of their careers IMHO. The only thing Coburn will be better at is producing more offense... And slightly at best.
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