Hawks get Rundblad and Brisebois

[nick.santangelo.9]

Not a bad move for the hawks. Getting two young guys who have some potential. Rundblad will report to the hawks and will wear number 5.

 

[KBIB]

Leddy is as good as gone now.

Kesler, welcome to the Hawks.


Crumpet?

 

[Jntg4]

Leddy is as good as gone now.

Kesler, welcome to the Hawks.


Crumpet?

Maybe, could view him as merely cheap depth however. 8th d-man on roster after Bowman said he didn't want to go back to that though, so it would not shock me to see him and Bicks packaged together.

Only question is whether the combo of Kesler + Rundblad is > Teravainen + Leddy (with Bickell still around?) come playoff time. I'd lean towards a yes because we have no idea what Teravainen would be, but obviously I'd take Leddy over Rundblad right now on a "who would you rather have regardless of whatever" basis.

 

[DewsSox79]

there is more to this deal. they are setting themselves up for another move


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[nick.santangelo.9]

Q says they are going with 8 d-man

 

[DMelt36]

there is more to this deal. they are setting themselves up for another move

Agreed on this.

Leddy is as good as gone now.

Not on this.

 

[DewsSox79]

Agreed on this.



Not on this.

bowmans track record has him rumored in big deals all the time than he gets a role player. i expect a role player or an avg 2c


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[southern_cross_116]

I doubt the Hawks are in on Kesler - not that I don't think he wouldn't be a welcome addition - i just have not read anyone reliable (meaning from places like TSN) even talking about it.

Nice move for the future possibly. Probably nothing more than that ... ok, and a Brisbois.

 

[KBIB]

Not on this.

The more I think about it I think you are right.

I wonder if Bowman is kicking the tires on Spezza.........


crumpet?

 

[DMelt36]

I believe a few of the beat reporters said that Rundblad is expected to make his Hawks debut on Sunday against Buffalo. I'm interested to see what the kid can do, now that we know he isn't going anywhere.

 

[Raskolnikov]

If he is a plus defender that can fit in here than I think he is worth a high draft pick. If he isn't than we wasted a valuable asset to try the fit.

His age is great, and is likely better than any defender we could have added right now with that pick.

 

[Raskolnikov]

Runblaad was a #17 overall pick defenseman in the first round for St.Louis.

But we are getting him for a second 4 years down the road. I like that for us. We need defenseman in the farm that are ready right now, and this solved that with one pick. One young guy for here with 1st round talent, one young guy for Rockford.

Once again we make the right small,

People need to get off Crawford and Bickell too, because Crawford has played amazing this year until very recently, and he will return to form. And Bickell just needs to show up to the playoffs. His style of play is inflammatory and we don't instigate until playoffs. He is clearly taking it easy, and eventually I think he finds his slap shot again.

If he is a gamer who rounds into form in May....what the hell is wrong with that? I love it and worth every penny if he can be a leader again in hits and points.

I don't know all the reasons we use him differently in regular season but I think the game is a bit different and we don't like to fire up the other team. Once he is cleared to play with emotion I think we will see what kind of gamer he is again.

 

[southern_cross_116]

... I don't know that draft position is always reliable - for example Cam Barker was a number 3 overall pick -and where is he now?