Hradek Expects Mike Ribeiro to be Moved This Weekend

what will Brenden Morrow’s game be like without his partner in crime?

worse than what it was this year.

book it

I’d rather see Morrow go than Ribs. But I don’t think GM Joe’s gonna give up on the captain anytime soon. I’ve lost a lot of faith in Morrow over the past year or so…

Any speculation on who Joe is eyeballing? I heard Souray but who knows.

Also mean that Mo gets to come back next year since they’re losing a center?

but in all seriousness I wouldnt doubt it is for a prospect and a draft pick late in the first of this year

Would prefer to move Morrow, although he probably doesn’t have enough value to move him for much now, and I suppose he has a solid locker-room presence that might be missed. For whatever reason, I’ve never been a big Ribeiro fan, though I can’t deny he’s been good here. Guess it all depends on what the Stars get.

And do whatever it takes to keep Richards. We’ve seen how he can completely dominate this year and how well he works with Loui. I’d rather have Richards at 7+ million than Ribeiro for 5. It’s nothing against Ribs, Richards is just much better suited for the new system.

…or something is VERY wrong with GM Joe. And it would cement my position that the guy is either being fed some serious misinformation from someone who hates the Stars, or he’s just plain in over his head.

Too bad Morrow can’t go too – I’m sorry, but he will not replace the production that Ribs takes with him.

I’m sorry, but I do not like this team minus Ribs plus Souray plus reliance on Mo as a top line center. That’s a couple of steps backwards in my opinion.

…for saying sorry so much. I’d much rather not be.

to do this before the draft so that we can re evaluate our picks, and determine if we need to replace him at center thru the draft. What about brent burns from the wild?

Okay, so we’ve established that Ribs will probably be traded. Who exactly are we trading him for?

“Like anyone could even know that”

Honestly though, I have seen no speculation (baseless or otherwise, actually) to suggest any names. There were a couple of Minnesota sources that suggested Burns (only after Brandon wrote about it at PHT) and the usual Souray suggestions that I think everyone hates…I don’t think Joe wants to get OLDER with a trade…Other than that we’ve got nothing to work with.

Because Wandell’s coming off a torn acl, and the last guy on this team to tear his acl is now the guy most people are upset that we can’t trade instead of Ribeiro. Sure, Wandell’s younger and a different type of player, but he also had none of the track record Morrow had. I don’t know, maybe I’m being unfair. I admit I don’t know the track record of acl recovery for hockey players.

As for Souray, he’s the type of guy I’d be OK with if the Stars had money. I know, it’s silly to dream of money. But I think he’d be decent ( at least for the 20 games he plays)- which is much better than what we have. But you don’t trade a guy like Ribeiro for him, and since they don’t have money, the Stars shouldn’t mess around with him anyways.

I like the NYR idea of getting Del Zotto/Staal. Don’t know if they’d be willing to lose either of them though.

Maybe we can get Carlson out of Washington if we sweeten it with something.

Burns seems like he could be worthwhile, but we’ve got to make sure we keep his head away from hard objects. Maybe try to get James Sheppard. Good prospect coming off a down season. He just got a one year extension so the risk is low. And we could even drop Niskanen’s rights in there just to make me feel better. I like this idea. Ribs/Nisky for Burns/Sheppard. They get a good center and a project and we get an injury prone defenseman and a project.

trading ribeiro will make bringing modano back make a lot more sense.

I’d rather have Richards, Benn, Modano as my top 3 centers with a better D corps than have Richards, Ribeiro, Benn as my top 3 centers and have the same D corps as we do now.

We trade Ribs for a decent, at least somewhat proven defenseman and maybe a prospect/pick, sign a free agent defenseman with some upside, and we’ll probably end up only losing a little bit of the cap room we have while vastly improving the team.

Suggesting Ribeiro to Atlanta for a prospect and the 8th overall pick. THAT would be a dream scenario for me. Just saying

And we wondered if they could get someone at 8 to help the team immediately.

We’re still wondering.

Personally I’m not interested in trading Ribeiro for (only) prospects and picks. This team needs help now.

Granted, they’ve been proactive in bringing up the best of ‘em pretty quickly, but it’s not exactly encouraging to see them ranked close to last when it comes to those rankings. I’d rather they make a deal like the suggested one for Atlanta’s pick (however unlikely that would be) than trade Ribeiro for a so-so D-man like the ones we seem to think they’d be eyeing (those Minnesota ones, for example). Stars may need help now, but that doesn’t mean they can’t look at improving the future.

Trade Ribs for the pick and a prospect. turn around and use your second round pick and either the eighth OR the 11th (not both) to move up to grab a top five defenseman. I know we will probably have to include the likes of niskanen or brunnstrom but who cares. It maybe a long shot but…. do able?