Trade Deadline: What Moves Would You Like?

[Ashor-redtribe]

Randy Carlyle will be the next Hawks coach.

 

[MassHavoc]

Is that an E6?

 

[Rex]

I like Carlyle actually.

 

[BigPete]

Would anyone consider Paul Gaustad instead of Derek Roy? TSN lists him as possibly being available. I could see this team make better use of him and Bolland as 2/3 centermen if Q had them to pick from. Gaustad is huge and is way better than a 4th liner. So he could fit with Shooter and Hoss or on a new makeshift 3rd line so Bolly could move up.



Thoughts?

 

[supraman]

Randy Carlyle will be the next Hawks coach.

Yeah but isn't he a defense first coach? Pass, I want an offensive coach, **** it just score 6 goals to their 3 every night.

 

[MassHavoc]

Hawks GM stands by Joel Quenneville

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Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman gave coach Joel Quenneville a vote of confidence Monday amid the team's eight-game winless streak.

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I'm very confident in Joel's ability, our coaching staff's ability.” -- Stan Bowman​

"That's not the concern for me at all," Bowman told Comcast SportsNet Chicago. "I'm very confident in Joel's ability, our coaching staff's ability."

Quenneville addressed the matter after practice Monday when he was asked if he needed to hear Bowman's support.

"I'm confident in what I do, and I look forward to the challenge ... to instill to our group a way to win and have a nice environment around here that can only get better as we go along," Quenneville said. "Hopefully we can look back at the position we are in today and it makes us a better and stronger team. It makes me a better coach."

Bowman rejected the notion that players are tuning out Quenneville, who guided the Blackhawks to the 2009-10 Stanley Cup title, snapping a 48-year drought.

"Our players -- the effort is there," Bowman said. "They're as frustrated as anybody, you can watch it on the ice. It's not working. There's no disputing that, but I don't buy that assertion at all. These players are on board with us. They believe in this group. We're not far. We need to get this turned around, but we're not far from making it work."

The Blackhawks were tied for the most points in the league on Jan. 19, but their streak -- which included one overtime loss -- has dropped them into the sixth spot in the Western Conference. It's the Blackhawks' worst skid since an eight-game winless streak during the 2007-08 season.

Much of the focus has been placed on the goaltending. Chicago still hasn't found a replacement for Antti Niemi, who led the team to the Cup. The Blackhawks felt an arbitrator's number was too high to sign Niemi, who then signed with the San Jose Sharks.

Chicago's Ray Emery is 39th in the NHL with a .901 save percentage while Corey Crawford is 43rd at .898. Niemi is 22nd at .917.

But Bowman said he's not looking for a replacement before the Feb. 27 trade deadline.

"We're not focused on goaltending. We're really not," Bowman told the network. "I know there's a lot of talk about that, but internally we have to focus on the guys we have and turning it around from within."





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Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, whose team has the most points in the NHL, was asked by reporters Monday if he would be stunned if Quenneville were fired.

"Absolutely ... 100 percent," he said.

Babcock said the Blackhawks remain a potent team and there's no reason for them to panic.

"Joel Quenneville's the coach. They've got real good players. Things aren't going the way they wanted right now," Babcock told reporters. "They're still a very dangerous team.

"A few weeks ago, everyone thought Chicago was going to win the West. I mean, I wouldn't get in a big panic. Now, if I was them I would be in a panic because that's what you do when you're the coach there ... not in a panic, but it'd be urgency. And I'm sure Joel's feeling that right now. You'd rather it was them than you, but a little adversity never killed anybody. It's just how you respond to it."

 

[BigPete]

Why bring Niemi into the conversation? That makes it sound like he was this stud goalie for us for 6 years.



As for Babcock, do any of these guys ever just lay it out there? "Joel had a very successful team for several weeks, they fucking suck now. If I was him, I would be packing my house up in anticipation of moving back to Canada."

 

[CLWolf81]

Yeah but isn't he a defense first coach? Pass, I want an offensive coach, **** it just score 6 goals to their 3 every night.

Ding. Ducks players had trouble with his complicated defense-only system also because of his constant line juggling... Hell, even Getzlaf was struggling mightily as a result.



Sound familiar?



It should. RC hasn't been hired as of yet and quite a number of teams fired coaches and hired other ones already.

 

[fanof19]

Baahhh....Joel's days are numbered. They did the same thing to Tallon in the Press. "We stand by him." Blah blah blah Haviland is probably chomping at the bit

 

[CLWolf81]

You can take Andy Sutton off the table....

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[the canadian dream]

As much as i love Ruutu he isn't worth a first round pick. **** that shit. Canes aren't getting a first rounder for him from anyone...then they have balls to ask for a prospect on top of that. Ballsy. I understand that its not really a selers market right now so what is available a higher price tag can be thrown on but give me a break.



3rd rounder and prospect makes more sense or even a second.



Canes are kidding themselves

 

[Ton]

Would anyone consider Paul Gaustad instead of Derek Roy? TSN lists him as possibly being available. I could see this team make better use of him and Bolland as 2/3 centermen if Q had them to pick from. Gaustad is huge and is way better than a 4th liner. So he could fit with Shooter and Hoss or on a new makeshift 3rd line so Bolly could move up.



Thoughts?

Heard the Hawks are looking at him as well.

 

[Ton]

Baahhh....Joel's days are numbered. They did the same thing to Tallon in the Press. "We stand by him." Blah blah blah Haviland is probably chomping at the bit

They did the same thing with Savard through training camp.

 

[bri]

As much as i love Ruutu he isn't worth a first round picj. **** that shit. Canes aren't getting a first roundern for him from anyone...then they have balls to ask for a prospect on top of that. Ballsy.



3rd rounder and prospect makes more sense or even a second.



Canes are kidding themselves

He got an upper body injury tonight. Not sure if it is serious or not. He may not even be an issue.

 

[MassHavoc]

Nash on the market?



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En francais, RDS' Renaud Lavoie reports Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets "est sure le march� des �changes". Translated, Nash is reportedly on the trade market. And, unsurprisingly, several NHL executives think highly of the 27-year-old.

Via twitter, TSN's Darren Dreger supports Lavoie's report:

"Further to RDS story on Nash last night, sources say the Blue Jackets are open to anything that will help their team longterm."

The New York Rangers are presumed to top a list of teams interested in the highly-skilled winger.

 

[Pez68]

$7.8m caphit through 2018. Who the **** is going to be interested in that?

 

[BigPete]

Yeah, I got an idea, let's get Rick DiPietro to replace Corey and Ray.

 

[the canadian dream]

$7.8m caphit through 2018. Who the **** is going to be interested in that?

New York Islanders.



Did you guys know a much as we laugh at the Islanders for their horrible cap work with their goalies that Tavaras is only a 3.75 cap hit until the end of 14/15. That's an amazing contract. But they have to re-sign Parenteau who has been good this year for the Islanders. Always forget PA Parenteau played with the Hawks for 5 games. He is starting to come into his own a little bit more now and turning into a nice play making lwer on the Islanders.



It is a heaft cap hit for Nash but I am sure a few teams out there would be interested and would work the space out. Wonder if Hitch would like his boy Nash back in St Louis. They could work space out for him.

 

[BigPete]

New York Islanders.



Did you guys know a much as we laugh at the Islanders for their horrible cap work with their goalies that Tavaras is only a 3.75 cap hit until the end of 14/15. That's an amazing contract. But they have to re-sign Parenteau who has been good this year for the Islanders. Always forget PA Parenteau played with the Hawks for 5 games. He is starting to come into his own a little bit more now and turning into a nice play making lwer on the Islanders.



It is a heaft cap hit for Nash but I am sure a few teams out there would be interested and would work the space out. Wonder if Hitch would like his boy Nash back in St Louis. They could work space out for him.

I beat you to the Isles reference. Bow down to me Toady-Cana-******

 

[Rex]

is it possible to rehire Tretiak as our goaltending coach?