Fantasy GM Chair

for the Heatley/Marleau deal. While what you imagine would be beautiful (I’m thinking there’s a way to put Sopel in the Buff/Steeg option) it will, in all likelihood, be only a fancy of the speculative mind.

Don’t think this deal of any shape or form will happen. Pretty sure this lastest instalment of “Who’s to blame?” in San Jose has pretty much labelled Marleau as the guy GM Doug Wilson has targeted in trading away in order to obtain Heatley.
With that said though if Heatley was to change his mind maybe, just maybe, the Versteeg and Byfuglien option may become appealing to Wilson and the Sharks operation but that’s only speculation.
Unfortunately it looks like Doug Wilson is stealing a page from “Iron” Mike Keenan and blame anyone and everyone for his team playoff collapse and is paving the way for a Savard-Chelios type of a deal.
Sad situation for Marleau to be in considering all he has done during his tenure in San Jose and very much agree with SamFels that Marleau was the only one that seemed to care about his team demise during the Anaheim series. Little fact: in the 2 games San Jose did win in the playoffs this season Game 3 Marleau had 2 goals and a 2 assists and in Game 5 had the OT winning goal which begs the question why is Marleau the one getting the shaft in all of this?
Just for the record though in my fantasy world the Hawks trade Campbell, Sopel, and Brouwer for Marleau. (Dream a little dream, life is but a dream sweetheart!)

This is me after reading that first supposed lineup.

— I would not be opposed to a Buff-for-picks-plus-minor-leaguers route, particularly if he comes back to earth early in the season. Maybe some diamonds in the rough make us very lucky.

One thing I think is safe: there will be a salary dump of some size. The later it happens, the less value we get. If it happens at the deadline, we may get royally screwed.

There is a lot of unknowns though. Which reminds me: Why are we talking about this? IT IS AUGUST. Burish will be through another five ladyfriends before we really know what is what. Perspective is key.

I would not trade Sharp. I would like to get Burns from JHC, I mean Wild, as I’ve said before. If that dream does not happen, then lets play with what we have. Yes, I hear the comments now.

But since we are pretending to be NHL GM’s. If Skille cannot make it with the Hawks after this camp, add him in to the trade. Buff, Versteeg, Skille for Marleau. I’m assuming that Dougie (since I’m a GM, I can call him Dougie) would trade either one. On that subject, maybe Dougie was watching Favre and is thinking about coming back and making himself the captain, OR maybe Roenick is coming back to wear the C.

Anyway…….

Hossa Toews Kane
Brouwer Marleau Sharp
Ladd Bolland Beach/Kopecky/Eager
Eager/Burish/Kopecky Madden Kopecky/Beach/Burish
Aliu (yes let him play)

If a center goes down Colin Fraser/Kopecky can do fill in.

Buff Versteeg Skille make around 7.5 MIL between them. Marleau makes 6.3 and would be a rent a player for the year. We would then have 8.7 plus the current salaries of Keith, Kane and Toews, which is an additional 8 MIL. The total available for them would be 16.7 MIL. That is plenty, and maybe we keep Madeen or Malrleau anyway. Not bad for my 2nd day.

OR
If we traded Versteeg Buff and Skille to MN for Burns, then Kopecky/Fraser will have to perform more, but our blue line would be unreal. AND he only makes 3.5 MIL for the next three years. You see where I’m going?

Keith Seabrook
Burns Barker
Campbell Hammer
Johnson

it couldn’t hurt to kick the tires a little. I think Doug will listen.

As there is talk about what the lines would look like…remember, Hossa isn’t touching game ice until after Thanksgiving. Would we need that depth in the first 6-8 weeks of the season (‘Steeg, Buff, and defenseman) with Panda being out? Sure Marleau would kind of be that star replacement, but again, I’m not saying that we don’t have the depth for sure, I figured I’d break off another branch of discussion. Or do we think with Marleau, and no Steeger, Buff, and whatever defenseman, will be fine until Hossa comes back?

Of Marleau with no Hossa? That features a lot of games against the Avalanche.

Not really too tough a stretch, the Hawks could certainly weather it.

On the other hand, I’m pretty sure the second the “C” was taken from Marleau, Wilson’s caller ID was filled with the numbers of every GM in the league.