Thread: THE official Colorado Avalanche/NHL thread!!!

Meh, if they haven't moved him by now, I'm not sure they will. Sakic has been pretty firm about what he wants for him and no one is biting. With Duchene off to a fairly solid start, this may simply not happen this season.

Originally Posted by wayninja

Meh, if they haven't moved him by now, I'm not sure they will. Sakic has been pretty firm about what he wants for him and no one is biting. With Duchene off to a fairly solid start, this may simply not happen this season.

I think it will. He doesn't want to be there, the relationship is fractured and they will want something in return before he bolts. I would want out too, they looked like a bunch of amateurs and the organisation is pretty much a joke.

Originally Posted by weazel

I think it will. He doesn't want to be there, the relationship is fractured and they will want something in return before he bolts. I would want out too, they looked like a bunch of amateurs and the organisation is pretty much a joke.

Maybe, I think it just depends on how the team does as a whole. If they can stay above 500 and actually be in the mix, the incentive for the avs to trade him goes way down and makes it much easier for Sakic to demand what he wants for him. So far (knock on wood), the avs are doing just that.

Originally Posted by wayninja

Maybe, I think it just depends on how the team does as a whole. If they can stay above 500 and actually be in the mix, the incentive for the avs to trade him goes way down and makes it much easier for Sakic to demand what he wants for him. So far (knock on wood), the avs are doing just that.

they're playing much better so far than they have the last couple of seasons. They even have Yakupov playing alright

Originally Posted by weazel

they're playing much better so far than they have the last couple of seasons. They even have Yakupov playing alright

Yeah, bednar called him out and he's been doing much better since!

I wasn't thrilled about that, but it seems to have lit a fire.

Wow! 57 saves for Varly in a 5-3 win over carolina.

60 shots faced, most in Avs history.

Duchesne apparently just got traded

Oh wow!

Avs got quite a lot on that deal!

****. I really like Sam Girard.

Looks like the Avs get a 1st, a 2nd, AND a 3rd, along with Girard, Kamenev, Bowers, and Hammond!

That seems like a fairly good trade to me considering the circumstances.

Girard shows a lot of promise. Also, I just got his autograph a month ago. Ugh.

The Colorado Avalanche have finally traded star center Matt Duchene as part of a three-way deal with the Ottawa Senators and Nashville Predators that, as of Friday night, seemed dead. Duchene, 26, was traded to the Senators while center Kyle Turris, 28, was moved to the Predators and signed a six-year contract extension. In exchange, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, Avalanche GM Joe Sakic gets his bounty of picks and prospects: a first-round pick and a third-round pick from Ottawa, along with 29-year-old pending free agent goalie Andrew Hammond and 18-year-old 2017 No. 28 overall pick Shane Bowers of Boston University; and from Nashville, defenseman Samuel Girard (No. 47 overall, 2016), a slick-skating 19-year-old offensive defenseman, 21-year-old forward Vladislav Kamenev (No. 42 overall, 2014) and a second-round pick. Ottawa gets the immediate impact, Nashville gets a cap-friendlier deal than Duchene would have been and Sakic gets his treasure chest of futures. Nice deal all around.
Greg Wyshynski, ESPN

They got a haul for him, not worth it in my opinion

Originally Posted by weazel

They got a haul for him, not worth it in my opinion

Are you saying Matt not worth the haul they got, or the other way around?

Originally Posted by wayninja

Are you saying Matt not worth the haul they got, or the other way around?

Yeah.