VETOED – RED MENACE / PATRIOTS TRADE

6 Comments

1. This seems a bit much to pay for james neal…

   I’m gonna have to veto.

   If you want a detailed reason of why just ask. If not thats ok too.

2. I veto as well..

   I have my own reasoning as well, and do not want to go public with this.

   I will give my explanation if need be.

3. VETO

   now here’s why:
   -let’s call a spade a spade, let’s say either ward or vokoun get picked off vince’s team – so we can discount the value of one of them – so we’ll just keep ward involved in justifying either side here.

   now cam ward, while expensive, is a true number one starter, likely going to play 65-70 games per season at a minimum, and scored me more than 100 pts this season, so we know he’s valuable regardless of his salary. keep that in mind.

   given pominville’s track record as a 60+ player and neal’s history, i’d put them at nearly equal (or neal plus a pick even) to equal pominville, even though pomininville is super expensive as well. we all know neal has upside if crosby lines up with him and develops chemistry, and he had upside regardless of that potential pairing too.

   now i’m not going to bother with the middling picks here because they cancel out – only the 6th overall has any value whatsoever.

   this trade becomes:

   ward, pominville, vokoun (who is at a discount because one of vince’s three goalies will get plucked)

   for

   neal, kindl, 6th overall.

   let’s say neal and pominville cancel each other out given the nature of salary, and past track record being factored in.

   ward and vokoun, even at a discounted value since only can be retained, is worth a hell of a lot more than kindl and a top end pick.

   and while i would have argued that it’s derek’s prerogative to trade this way, there’s just too much going one way and not enough to support it the other way. looking at it differently, derek’s team is decimated from this trade – he is left with bernier in net who is not even assured a starting job, neal who is decent and fits his cheap, young direction, and a 6th overall which is bound to be decent given the top 7-8 players available in the entry draft. vince however becomes a lot stronger in the one position we can all agree he was very weak in at this point.

   had different assets been moved from vince’s side this could be allowable but otherwise i don’t like it. this was after very careful thought and consideration of the fact that one GM is clearly trying to re-build.

4. I agree with the Giulios analysis…..Veto

5. Veto

6. Vetoes
   Danny
   Giulio
   Gennaro
   Anthony Calzetta
   Joe Ferraro
   Joe D’abramo
   Anthony Campanella

   That’s 7 vetoes, which officially makes it a vetoed trade.