Ducky

Or the Jets just lowballed him after signing Buff and said sign or else...

I think it is universally agreed that Matthews will go first...

Loony tunes to pick up Matthews?

I'd trade the 4th and Myers for 1st....Trouba and 4th I'd have to think about but would probably still do it.

well then what in hades are you talking about?

Ladd taking too many penalties is a myth... He's right around the same as Enstrom and Wheeler.

So Burmi and Enstrom instead of Trouba? Would you make that deal if you had the 1st? 5th-7th pick in the draft and Enstrom and Burmi for 1st overall?

Do you think someone would trade the 1st overall for our pick and Enstrom? You've got to give to get. Again, Enstrom has a full NMC...

I think he said 5th to 7th. If we get 2nd or 3rd, wrap it up with Myers.

Won't even have to get on a plane!!!!!!

Lawless said yesterday that when Edmonton wins the lottery the Jets should package up their 1st rounder and Trouba for the 1st overall. I don't think we should trade Trouba but this is a very interesting proposal.

If he is traded to Florida, they play here on Monday...

From Friedman... "Sounds like contract talks have started with Morgan Reilly. Next time we hear about it will probably be when he signs. " This will have a huge bearing on Trouba's contract.

St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott has been placed on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury. He is set to re-evaluated in four weeks. Anyone see the Jets making a deal with St. Louis? Hutch?

I remember seeing players pulled from games because they were traded during the game. Ladd to Florida in the next two days?

John Jaeckel... The Hawks' focus remains Arizona winger Mikkel Boedker, who a separate source told me yesterday afternoon the Hawks are getting “closer” on. Andrew Ladd is the other top target. My source last night was also very specific that the Hawks are NOT the team reported on NBC Sports as having offered a first round pick for Ladd. I also heard yesterday that the LA Kings have made a “sizable” offer for Ladd, but that it is “complicated”—and another source believes Florida will win out “and they’ll overpay."

I'll trust Chevy's opinion on what is the right trade.

Why McCoshen? Pokka would be an excellent 3rd pairing D man. He is NHL ready and would be a great fit. Trouba-Buff Enstrom-Myers (Hamonic) Stu (let's not fool ourselves...sigh)-Pokka

Ladd needs to play in Anaheim. Lotsa young LHD there.

It helps that they are smart hockey trades though.

Pokka is the player Chevy should be going after the their system, not Schmaltz.

Poolman is one of the later round picks the Jets got in 2013 when they traded their second rounder to Washington (who used it to draft Sanford). Poolman is one of the later round picks the Jets got in 2013 when they traded their second rounder to Washington (who used it to draft Sanford). The Hawks' second-round pick went to the Caps as the result of a trade on June 30, 2013 that sent Washington's third and fourth-round picks in 2013 (84th and 114th overall) and Calgary's fifth-round pick in 2013 (127th overall) to Winnipeg in exchange for this pick. Winnipeg previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on June 30, 2013 that sent Oduya to Chicago in exchange for Chicago's third-round pick in 2013 and this pick.

Here's what Ken Hodge proposes... I have long believed that the only solution to tanking is a random draw, minus odds, for the number-one draft position, with all 14 non-playoff teams eligible. I must concede that widespread support for this idea has not been forthcoming. So here’s another one. The day after the trade deadline, the NHL takes the teams sitting in positions 26-30, using points per game to balance the totals, and awards those teams the first five spots in the draft, with the order to be determined. By a lottery? No, by their performance during the rest of the season. And here’s the kicker; the number-one draft position goes to the team, among those five, that gains the most points, not the fewest. In other words, games in March and April involving those five teams would reward success, not failure. Imagine an 82nd game of the season between the Leafs and the Oilers, with no points separating them, and the best odds on Auston Matthews awaiting the winner. Further details are available upon request, but the current lottery system, or, preferably, my unweighted version, would be used to determine draft order beyond the fifth position. Should you worry that a team might maneuver its way into the bottom five just prior to the trade deadline, I admire your attention to detail here, and offer, yet again, the hat with 14 teams in it.

Lawless seems to think that if Chevy played LA, Anaheim and the Hawks against each other, he'd get a player, a prospect and a 1st.

Nope and I'd rather have Bowey too although Schmaltz is the Hawks' number one prospect not named Dano.