1) I doubt Snow was keeping Chia posted on all the possible landing spots for Vanek.BoSoxFink said:Wait a 2nd round pick and a prospect and you couldn't match that to prevent the biggest fucking bruins killer going to the biggest bruins rival!?
Shhhhh. Your logic is of no use here.Jed Zeppelin said:Would have had to shed salary, no? Choice between bolstering a battered defense or adding Vanek to a top-5 offense. Obviously it would have been nice.
It's called the salary cap.TheoShmeo said:This reminds me a little bit of Welker. Different circumstances but same triple whammy.
The home team doesn't get their man, he goes to the team we'd least like to see him on and the price of obtaining him seems more than manageable.
Chia has some explaining to do.
Shhhhh. Your logic is of no use here.
Wait - you expected Chiarelli to know what MTL was offering?BoSoxFink said:Wait a 2nd round pick and a prospect and you couldn't match that to prevent the biggest fucking bruins killer going to the biggest bruins rival!?
No. Which is why they got Mezaros. Try to keep up champ.Carmine Hose said:
So Potter's the best they could do to bolster the battered defense?
well the last part isn't true, as we all heard he tried to get Vanek in the Seguin trade last year but I understand your points. The biggest obstacle is definitely the salary cap.Smiling Joe Hesketh said:1) I doubt Snow was keeping Chia posted on all the possible landing spots for Vanek.
2) I wouldn't like a GM who made moves only to prevent good players from going to other teams. I like Vanek and would have welcomed him here, but perhaps Chia feels differently or Vanek was never made available to the Bruins.
Vanek would have been nice, but yes Chiarelli would have had to trade someone on their roster to fit him under the cap. But, looking at the acquisition cost, it's less than what we all thought. Maybe Snow had a directive not to take back any salary. We know how cheap the Isles are.kenneycb said:Shhhhh. Your logic is of no use here.
TheoShmeo said:This reminds me a little bit of Welker. Different circumstances but same triple whammy.
The home team doesn't get their man, he goes to the team we'd least like to see him on and the price of obtaining him seems more than manageable.
Chia has some explaining to do.
1998 called. It wants its joke back.Carmine Hose said:Well, at least Jeremy gets to keep his cap space
Since when was Vanek our man? This is absurd.TheoShmeo said:This reminds me a little bit of Welker. Different circumstances but same triple whammy.
The home team doesn't get their man, he goes to the team we'd least like to see him on and the price of obtaining him seems more than manageable.
Chia has some explaining to do.
Carmine Hose said:
So Potter's the best they could do to bolster the battered defense?
We also don't know who the prospect is.RedOctober3829 said:Vanek would have been nice, but yes Chiarelli would have had to trade someone on their roster to fit him under the cap. But, looking at the acquisition cost, it's less than what we all thought. Maybe Snow had a directive not to take back any salary. We know how cheap the Isles are.
TheoShmeo said:This reminds me a little bit of Welker. Different circumstances but same triple whammy.
The home team doesn't get their man, he goes to the team we'd least like to see him on and the price of obtaining him seems more than manageable.
Chia has some explaining to do.
PS: no need to point out the obvious differences....Vanek wasn't on the Bs, etc. This just rings familiar in those three ways....
kenneycb said:We also don't know who the prospect is.
Arthur Staple @StapeNewsday 19s
Collberg, 20, was Habs 2nd round pick in 2012. Plays for Frolunda in Swedish League.
What other offers were out there that he didn't accept?BoSoxFink said:Snow fucked this up beyond belief
Miss the Meszaros trade in your rush to post something unoriginal and witless?
its not even just about this trade which I think is awful, but it goes back to trading for Vanek originally and what they gave up to get him. I just think it was poor choices.FL4WL3SS said:What other offers were out there that he didn't accept?
RedOctober3829 said:Not surprisingly, Felger and even Bob Beers are killing the Bruins for "not doing more" and "letting Vanek go to Montreal".
ForceAtHome said:Collberg is a solid prospect. I liked him in the WJC.
Collberg isn't a bad looking player. It could be that he had no better offer and pulled the trigger on something before he had nothing. He bled two seconds, a third, and a toolsy prospect for MacDonald and Vanek. Not Earth-shattering, but not awful.BoSoxFink said:Snow fucked this up beyond belief
TheRealness said:
Well, it's much more Felger. Felgy basically was hammering Beersy to admit that it will be difficult for them to win the cup.
Ok then. Because it would have been easy if they got Vanek and Jack Johnson.
Yeah, just turn it off. I just did after Beers segment ended.
AnywayssssGreg29fan said:The Bruins won the East today anyways since Pittsburgh made no upgrades. Brian Gibbons with Sid? LOL, Chara will swat him away like a gnat.
Arthur Staple @StapeNewsday 1m
2nd rounder from MTL is not conditional. If Canadiens make the playoffs, #Isles send a 5th-round pick back.
ForceAtHome said:Sounds like it may be Halak for Neuvirth straight up? At minimum, that's definitely the base. Still looking for confirmation. Interesting to see how Halak and Holtby situation plays out.
Agree on the Koko comparison.PedroSpecialK said:I would say Khokhlachev is a comparable, maybe slightly inferior, prospect to Collberg. Bergevin was in the driver's seat with the amount of cap space he had, he even managed to make the conditional pick (the 2nd rounder wasn't conditional) benefit the Habs: