Player: Niclas Havelid
Trade Value: Good
Potential Suitors: Phoenix Coyotes, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars
Likely Scenario: Havelid will go to the Phoenix Coyotes. You can take that to the bank and smoke it; remember you heard it here first, folks. They could use someone like him, especially in a playoff run. Who would we get back? Much as I like Shane Doan, I'm afraid all the Yotes will offer is a young cactus.
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Player: Mathieu Schneider
Trade Value: Reasonably Good to Fair
Potential Suitors: Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes
Likely Scenario: No idea, but if the Canucks have any intention of pulling themselves together and making a playoff run they'll need someone like Schneider to help out on the power play. I think they could do a lot worse than to go after him; I'm sure we could get the creaking, schlerotic end of Mats Sundin's career in return. The other teams might offer 2nd or 3rd round draft picks. The Coyotes might give us Ken Klee.
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Player: Colby Armstrong
Trade Value: Reasonably Good
Potential Suitors: Pittsburgh Penguins
Likely Scenario: I'd really like to hold on to Army, but he seems miserable here, so we might as well ship him back to his buddy. They might give us Pascal Dupuis in return.
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Player: Marty Reasoner
Trade Value: Good
Potential Suitors: Everyone
Likely Scenario: Reasoner is one of maybe three Thrashers players whose performance this season I can praise without qualification. I would really, REALLY like to hold on to the Party; in fact, I refuse to watch him go. If he must go, any number of teams would take him. I say he'd be mighty useful on the Canadiens or the Bruins, possibly the Sabres as well.
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Player: Kari Lehtonen
Trade Value: Depends on how you look at it, but I'd say Very Good Indeed
Potential Suitors: Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Los Angeles Kings, Colorado Avalanche, Ottawa Senators
Likely Scenario: You might have noticed that only one of those teams will be going to the playoffs. A talented young goalie like Kari would come in quite handy during the playoffs; I don't think Osgood is going to get it done this year, and I just can't see Conklin carrying a team to the Stanley Cup. Meanwhile, the Blues and the Kings and the Avs and the Sens are all in dire need of a goalie (well, maybe not the Kings so much, thanks to the advent of Jonathan Quick). Who knows what we could get in return? I predict Kari joins Hossa in Detroit and we end up with some Red Wings player with amazing stats whose production falls off dramatically as soon as he comes to Atlanta. IF he's traded, that is.
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I hate this team. If Nicki went to Phoenix that'd be boss.
I'd just want to hold on a bit and keep Kari and wait for Moose to retire to make him goalie coach so Pavs can come up. That's the only good thing I can see for us in the future. We just need defense and the Kari will break out. He's been playing great lately except that Islanders game obviously.
The Pens are fairly desperate and are talking about moving Jordan Staal in order to get somebody to play with Crosby. I say give them Army back along with whatever draft pick or Marty Reasoner they want to get Staal.
Ship Schneider to the Canucks for a draft pick on the hope that they'll continue to tank and the pick will be a good one.
I don't see Kari going anywhere. He's not shown enough stability for a team to put much stock in him and he's up for a new contract after this season. Even as an RFA, why trade anything but a draft pick for such a gamble?
I can't see Colby going anywhere, he's too big of a producer here, even if he is miserable, and I don't think Shero would part with anyone that would entice DW to move his #5 goal scorer. Shero's gonna be in a tough spot if/when the cap comes down - he can't afford to move too much youth.
kari to detroit for flip. he would be a good 1-2 line pivot with contract left and might mesh with czar! Please!
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