Article: Wild Could've Made Mistake In Marco Rossi Trade

[Thomas Williams]

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[Citizen Strife]

I get the need for solving the offense problem.  The Wild definitely lack top end scoring behind Kap and Boldy, but Rossi's point totals aren't so demonstrably different while also being solid defensively.  If Peterka was a 75-80 pt scorer, that'd be a tougher thing.

[mnfaninnc]

I was never on the Peterka bandwagon. I'm glad we didn't bite and kept Rossi. 

However, I am on the Mason McTavish bandwagon, so I'd be open to a deal there.

[Scalptrash]

The Wild should have tried to get him w/o giving up Rossi. THAT would have been a nice Christmas morning present. Would you rather have Peterka or Tarasenko in your top six? Of course, Billy's only goal was to get rid of Rossi any way possible, so that never would have happened.

Now that Rossi has a very trade friendly contract (intentional), they should try to trade him for McTavish. He fits much better in Billy's mold and I'm sure he would pay him what he's actually worth.

Edited 4 hours ago by Scalptrash

[MrCheatachu]

There's this gem from the Russo article, straight from the horse's mouth:

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Guerin considered trading Rossi throughout June, but the only offers he got were for futures, including mid-to-late first-rounders and roster players he had no interest in. Guerin refused all those offers as he did not want to make his team worse. He wanted a center or winger back who could bring similar production.

Interesting that Russo mentions that the timeline he considered trading Rossi was 'throughout June' and that he only had offers for 'roster players he had no interest in' which seems to suggest that Peterka might not have been in play.

It's still really fascinating to me that none of the other 32 teams wanted to pony up a package for Ross-Vegas, every team seems to be improving this season, and the free agent class has been abysmal...why wouldn't you put together a package for a guy who looks to be a legit 2C in the league?  What am I missing here?

[Imyourhuckleberry]

My favorite part of this news/rumors section is the back to back comments from Scalptrash and MrCheatachu.

Scalptrash:

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Billy's only goal was to get rid of Rossi any way possible

MrCheatachu:

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Guerin refused all those offers as he did not want to make his team worse.

Only 1 of those statements can be true.😎

[MrCheatachu]

11 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

My favorite part of this news/rumors section is the back to back comments from Scalptrash and MrCheatachu.

Scalptrash:

MrCheatachu:

Only 1 of those statements can be true.😎

I was quoting Russo quoting Billy...you know, the best part of being an internet commenter is to not form your own opinion 😉

That part, making a team 'better' or 'worse' is more subjective than 'cheaper' or 'younger' or 'taller' or 'heavier'.

If I was a gambling man, I'd reckon that Marco Rossi's name is never going to be on SillyG's list of 'untouchables.'  I'd also reckon that Rossi aint going to be moved for a bag of pucks at this point.

Compared to last off season, this off season we've not seen any huge trades and/or big free agency swings.  Seems like the majority of the teams are either in 'run it back' mode rather than 'retool on the fly' mode, and with the cap rising, nobody seems to be in a rush to move assets since everyone seems to have money this off season.  Over half the teams have over $4M in free cap space, and 25% of them have >$9M in cap space.  And who's left unsigned?  Jack Roslovic?

[Will D. Ness]

We did good to not overcommit.  Our options and opportunities are still open which hopefully leads to something really good (Panarin).