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Post by nash on Oct 6, 2023 4:29:54 GMT -7
You are all welcome for that image  I could have posted these two trades separately, but then I couldn't have forced that imagery on you guys. To Belfast: John Tavares, Daniel Sprong, Belfast 1RR 2024 To Houston: Timo Meier, Belfast 2RR 2025, Belfast 4RR 2025 To Belfast: Matthew Tkachuk, Connor McDavid, Brayden McNabb To Cole Harbour: Tage Thompson, Joel Eriksson-Ek, Cody Glass, Ty Dellandrea, Artem Zub, Daniel Sprong, Belfast 1RR 2024, Belfast 1RR 2025 |
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Post by Oxford United on Oct 6, 2023 5:30:51 GMT -7
Congratulations, boys. Jaw dropping. Simply astounding.
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Post by alphalackey on Oct 6, 2023 5:42:20 GMT -7
Spends the whole draft pooping on Daniel Sprong and before long, he trades Sprong for McDavid. Consider myself vindicated.
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Post by Oxford United on Oct 6, 2023 6:08:01 GMT -7
Spends the whole draft pooping on Daniel Sprong and before long, he trades Sprong for McDavid. Consider myself vindicated. Or he thought so much of Sprong that he was a throw-in bag of pucks twice in one day. |
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Post by alphalackey on Oct 6, 2023 6:37:10 GMT -7
Spends the whole draft pooping on Daniel Sprong and before long, he trades Sprong for McDavid. Consider myself vindicated. Or he thought so much of Sprong that he was a throw-in bag of pucks twice in one day. Houston to Cole Harbour with a layover in Belfast. Must have been frequent flyer miles for that one. |
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Post by Oxford United on Oct 6, 2023 7:37:23 GMT -7
Or a kidnapping? Blink twice if the bad man forced you to Sprong.
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Post by nash on Oct 6, 2023 8:29:17 GMT -7
Now that I've seen a few people commenting I thought I'd drop in my two cents. 1. Love these deals for all the teams for different reasons: - Houston is rebuilding after winning the lottery. Traded an older Tavares for a top line winger. I might have held onto Sprong, but I can see he was necessary.
- Belfast is going for it. Dropped roster numbers for quality in anticipation of next years loss of Inactive spots.
- Cole Harbour trades his two best players at the height of their powers/value. Tkachuk not likely to be able to repeat playoff work, though we'll see about the regular season. McDavid may improve, but not to a new level like he did this past year.
We'll see if this is enough for Belfast. If it isn't, they'll still be competitive next year.
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Post by alphalackey on Oct 6, 2023 8:38:55 GMT -7
I actually had a choice to take an alternate deal without Sprong and the draft picks. I did consider keeping him I think his current card was just too good for this one year to not move him for value, and a 2nd and a 4th seemed reasonable. If he winds up lighting it up in Detroit I may well regret insisting on that.
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Post by VFS Adam on Oct 6, 2023 9:35:57 GMT -7
Holy Blockbusters, Batman! I haven't seen so many stars move since Minnesota went to Dallas!
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Post by Oxford United on Oct 6, 2023 9:40:07 GMT -7
Holy Blockbusters, Batman! I haven't seen so many stars move since Minnesota went to Dallas! Quality late night comedy, folks. |
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Post by amack17 on Oct 7, 2023 6:57:45 GMT -7
Ultimately, McDavid had started a "No Connors" club. He was heard by management bragging about how he had only just managed to get that "bum" Kyle shipped to Oxford, and he would be damned if he was going to let Cole Harbour sink low enough to add another dude vain enough to use his name.
Once word was out the management was shopping McDavid, Tkachuk came wandering in and demanded that he be named Captain, or at least that is what we think he was drunkenly slurring. Moving him at that time just made sense.
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Post by Belfast on Oct 7, 2023 9:11:31 GMT -7
I believe what he was saying was "I wanna go home...Cole Harbor is nothing like I was promised."
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I could have posted these two trades separately, but then I couldn't have forced that imagery on you guys.
