WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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@FriedgeHNICbustaheims said:
Toronto is no longer on Rick Nash's list of destinations
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Toronto is no longer on Rick Nash's list of destinations
Eklund tweets this:
Hockey Buzz Eklund@Eklund
Ws just told by a VERY good source that JVR may have been the last piece Leafs Needed to Make Run at Nash?Remember the Jackets wanted him.
And within minutes Dreger and and Friedman report the complete opposite, and friedman adds:
Elliotte Friedman@FriedgeHNIC
That's not breaking news by the way, @DamoSpin reported it awhile ago.
Hockey Buzz Eklund@Eklund
Ws just told by a VERY good source that JVR may have been the last piece Leafs Needed to Make Run at Nash?Remember the Jackets wanted him.
And within minutes Dreger and and Friedman report the complete opposite, and friedman adds:
Elliotte Friedman@FriedgeHNIC
That's not breaking news by the way, @DamoSpin reported it awhile ago.
BlueWhiteBlood
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Leafs Not in on Nash. (E1)
"per Darren Dreger, TSN."
- Eklund
;D
Champ Kind
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Nothing new here, but you've gotta follow something during a slow news period.
The Columbus Dispatch uncovered the six teams that Nash would approve a trade to, and none of them are in Canada.
Nash?s list of ?approved? destinations are: Boston, Detroit, New York Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Jose.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/article/1224157--maple-leafs-aren-t-on-rick-nash-s-trade-list
The Columbus Dispatch uncovered the six teams that Nash would approve a trade to, and none of them are in Canada.
Nash?s list of ?approved? destinations are: Boston, Detroit, New York Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Jose.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/article/1224157--maple-leafs-aren-t-on-rick-nash-s-trade-list
This suits me just fine. They would have had to pay far more than he's worth, plus get saddle with another monster contract.
Can't handle a Canadian market, poor baby. I only want players on the Leafs who actually want to be there, don't wilt under pressure and are proud to don the jersey and work to build a winner.
I hope he has to spend the rest of his career in Columbus.
Can't handle a Canadian market, poor baby. I only want players on the Leafs who actually want to be there, don't wilt under pressure and are proud to don the jersey and work to build a winner.
I hope he has to spend the rest of his career in Columbus.
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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Ah the Columbus Post Dispatch, that great bastion of journalistic integrity!Nik? said:
L K
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Bullfrog said:
And I would love for them to acquire his overpaid behind. He's not a dominant defensive force. Only uses his size some of the time, and is wayyyyyy overpaid for a guy who broke 70 points once in his career.
If his name was Rick Semin he would be derided for not playing up to his talent level.
Kin
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L K said:
And this thread would be a lot funnier.
Anyways, I disagree a little. I think he's getting paid a little too much and I think he's established himself as a guy who's probably a longshot to ever win a Hart but I think, based on what I've seen of him in international play, that if Rick Nash was ever on a team where the opposition's D couldn't almost entirely devote themselves to shutting him down he'd emerge as one of the two or three most productive wingers in the game.
L K
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Nik? said:
I guess I go back and forth on it simply because the package that Columbus seems to want to demand for him is going to devastate any teams prospect pool if not their up and coming NHL depth. While he will have much better support anywhere other than Columbus, he's not going to have Team Canada's level of support.
I guess for me I think it's much like the Luongo situation. Rick Nash as a free agent I probably don't have a problem with the contract and asset. But Rick Nash at 7.8 million + losing eg. Gardiner + Kulemin + Franson + a 1st doesn't make sense to me.
Kin
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L K said:
I don't disagree with anything there. I think his cost is too much and the Leafs need someone to build around and I don't know if that's him.
My point is just it seems a little unfair to cast him as "a guy who's only cracked 70 points once" given his situation. The guy won the Richard trophy at 19 years old and, I think, is a terrific player.
LuncheonMeat
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Bullfrog said:
Sounds like he likes the idea of a more intense market. I think maybe it's sour grapes he has an aversion to.
GhostofPotvin29
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LuncheonMeat said:Bullfrog said:
Sounds like he likes the idea of a more intense market. I think maybe it's sour grapes he has an aversion to.
While they are intense markets in the context of the US, I still don't think any of those markets rival a Canadian one, because hockey will never be the #1 story all season long like it will in the Canadian markets. They're huge markets some of them, but I still don't think it's that similar to a Canadian one.
That being said, I don't agree with calling him a baby.
#1PilarFan
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And San Jose...Bullfrog said:
Rebel_1812
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BlueWhiteBlood said:
those two should just have sex and get it over with.
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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One of the biggest cities in the U.S. and has only one major sports team, don't get it twisted, the Sharks are a huge deal here.#1PilarFan said:
Bullfrog
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Potvin29 said:
True, but the point was they're not exactly back-water places either. You screw up big time in NY and you're still in the sports page of the NY Times.
That is, assuming that list is reasonably accurate, Nash isn't shying away from big markets and pressure as an earlier poster was implying.