Well, scratch Tampa off the potential list for Luongo.
Nashville trades Lindback to Tampa
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Well, scratch Tampa off the potential list for Luongo.
maplesyrup
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Options thinning for us. :-\
SGT said:
And Vancouver. Match made in heaven really.
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Jalili
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Lindback will have his work cut out for him going from Rinne's backup in Nashville with that blueline of theirs, to starter in Tampa without much of a supporting cast on the back-end.
maplesyrup
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RedLeaf said:
Via trade? Bernier perhaps?
Trade breakdown with more details on the draft picks:
SGT said:
Kind of goes against the idea that Burke is looking for a veteran.
maplesyrup
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True.
BlueWhiteBlood
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Good for Stevie, the early bird gets the worm. I guess he wasn't bluffing about his interest in Lou lou.
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Tigger said:
Wasn't Wilson a 1st rounder?
BlueWhiteBlood said:
Different Wilson. You're thinking of Colin. This one is just a throw-in.
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CarltonTheBear said:
Thanks, lots of Wilson's in hockey...
I like the deal for Tampa. Lindback was roughly worthy of those picks.
It is what Yzerman said he was going to do.
Yzerman's got Norfolk's Tokarski to compete with who played very well as we saw against the Marlies in the Calder Cup.
TBay also has #1 pick Riku Helenius who won the best goalie award in Finland and the championship there this season with .936 save% reg season, .947 save% playoffs. Yzerman has expressed that he'd like to bring him back over.
If they sign Helenius, that would give them three pretty good candidates. No guarantees as Leafs fans know all about 'good young candidates'. But I'd do that many times over before I'd take on Luongo's contract at this stage of the Leafs roster development.
It is what Yzerman said he was going to do.
Yzerman's got Norfolk's Tokarski to compete with who played very well as we saw against the Marlies in the Calder Cup.
TBay also has #1 pick Riku Helenius who won the best goalie award in Finland and the championship there this season with .936 save% reg season, .947 save% playoffs. Yzerman has expressed that he'd like to bring him back over.
If they sign Helenius, that would give them three pretty good candidates. No guarantees as Leafs fans know all about 'good young candidates'. But I'd do that many times over before I'd take on Luongo's contract at this stage of the Leafs roster development.
bustaheims
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Godo value for both teams here, I'd say. We'll see how it works out for Tampa. Lindback put up pretty average numbers this past season. Interesting to see how he'll do in a full time role.
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Demand went down by one team of a small handful. And Yzerman said he wasn't interested in Luongo (probably due to his contract). Both those things should help to drop the talent price required to get him.
Add in Luongo's short list of clubs (Tampa was probably on his list) and it is more difficult for Vancouver to move him with one potential destination removed.
One thing I take from Yzerman is that as good as Luongo may be, not all GMs are willing to join a stampede to get their mitts on him because of that contract. Yzerman quickly dismissed the notion.
Imagine Burke presenting Luongo's deal to the board at MLSE (which he must):
"I wouldn't sign 31 yr old UFA Brad Richards for $59 mil over 9 years (with most of the money in the first six years). Richards was a first line center we desperately need (and I took a pass on other UFAs like him). But I want you to embrace taking on a 33 yr old goalie being dumped by his team for $53 mil over 10 years (who gets the bulk of his dough in the first seven years).
Now a lot of goalies start to decline at age 35 or so ... kind of like Vokoun who we took a pass on. But we might get lucky as like Vokoun, Luongo's stats are roughly the same.
We require, as a team, proper levels of pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence. That's how our teams play. It'll take a bunch of that to stomach this deal. It starts at the top!!!"
I realize there are some differences with Richards contract situation but generally, Luongo's contract cuts against Burke's position on crazy contracts like this. In light of his previous position, it's not an easy sell IF Burke gets past the issue himself. Even though his job may depend on it, I wonder if he will.