2012 NHL Trade Deadline: What Path Should Dallas Stars Take?

Personally I think there is a way we can make the team better now but more importantly be better for the distant future. I beleive Joe is trying to build a team that is similar to the one he was on when they won the cup here in 99. The goligoski trade was so we had the best puck moving defenceman on our team since zubov. We’ve got our young modano type stud in benn and our extremely good two way forward of erikkson (Think jere lehtenen). The goalie speaks for himself on most nights. Now we are missing a few peices, the main one being the derian hatcher type defenceman and i think we should make a big play at shea weber. Zach parise should also be on our radar as we have the most cap room in the league. Maybe you can try and aquire one at the deadline and then one as a free agent in the offseason. Both of those players make us better right now but also make us a contender for years to come

You want something significant, FA isn’t something you can count on. Suter and Parise are the only biggies and no guarantee they make it to FA.

they certainly shouldnt sacrifice the future for this years team. Don’t trade youth/picks/prospects for any soon to be UFAs or aging players who arent going to be around for the long haul.

I think any move should be darn smartly and with the future in mind. We should not make a move just because we can.

With that said, I think this franchise does need to make a splash. If the Stars are going to be a top-tier franchise again, the need to put a winning product on the ice and they need to have an enthusiastic fan base that supports it. A big move, if it’s for the right player (my dream remains Parise), can help with both of those.

Look, I love a lot of the guys we have, but we’re a mediocre team that needs things to go just right to sneak into the playoffs as the 7th-8th seed. And right now things aren’t going the way we need to do that. And sure, attendance is improving since the ownership change and the new marketing, but it’s not where it needs to be. To get there, I think it takes more than lower prices- people need to be excited about the Stars.

Acquiring a player that helps improve the team, and is a name player that fans recognize, is the shot in the arm needed.

Easier said than done, I know, but Gaglardi himself said this franchise needs to make the playoffs this season. It’s time to make the move that can put us there.

With Benn and Ribeiro out, we could easily fall out of the race in the next two weeks. Either way, mortgaging the future would be beyond dumb at this point and everyone under 26 should be pretty much untouchable.

If we’re sellers, we should sell hard. Souray and Grossman should both fetch significant packages, and given our organizational depth in defense they should be moved if we are sellers. Something that I’m not seeing a lot of but should probably be considered is trading Robidas. He should be starting a downturn in the coming years, and if we could get him to a contender in need of a defenseman (Philadelpha…. wretch Vancouver) it would do him a bit of justice. For those teams to land Robidas, Schenn or Hodgson have to be part of the deal and any other team would have to give up a significant young center for him. Souray and Grossman, if they’re let go, should also be let go with an eye toward young centers. In a perfect world, I see Souray and Robidas for Schenn and Hodgson, with picks revolving around them.

If we’re buyers… We shouldn’t be. We don’t have the pieces to turn into a cup contender, and we shouldn’t gamble the future just to get to the playoffs.

In either case, once Vincour gets healthy we should flip Dvorak for picks. He’s been great, but Vincour’s been better and we can’t afford to let an asset as ripe as Dvorak (he’s cheap and he kills penalties) spoil for nothing. He’s a perfect rental player

The NHL & NHLPA are at it again. Could there be a lockout? Teams will get reshuffled if there is.

If we move someone Like Robidas or Grossman we will need to take salary back in the trade to stay above the floor. While I would love nothing more than to stock pile first and fifth round picks the financials must mix into the equation.

Are there any bad contracts that are out there teams would be willing to send to get off books? Take on a short term bad contract and money in order to pick up draft picks.

I’d be more interested in Gagner than Parrjarvi. They probably have similar prices and Gagner being a right handed center is more appealing to me.

Get a powerplay scorer!

Also, is Pardy worth a 5th-rounder?

And if i had my way, i’d trade grossman, ryder and a 1st for malkin. And i am aware of the comments above about trading recently aquired FA, but malking would be our nm 1 center for years to come, imagine, Benn, malkin, eriksonn. With the playmaking center who can score goals, with benn would can also score at will and with eriksson with them playing the way he does. That would be one of the best top lines in the league.

If i was to go for any other players. It would be Ryan ellis and brayden schenn, i couldnt imagine Ellis would be to hard to aquire if the preds still have suter an weber at the time. They are quiet defensivly sound. And brayden schenn could be had at a decent price and could help glennie improve an possible be a good tandom for the future. Whatever happens, i still believe this team as is can ruffle some feathers in the playoffs!

I just figure, with pens having 3 big possible top line centers, obviously with crosby the main one. He aint gonna be injury prone for ever. Pens could afford to loose malkin or staal an still be dominat.

Ryan ellis is small, but can play alot bigger then he is an has alot of potential. Never said it would happen, i am but a dreaming man!

Think it’s time they start moving veteran players for picks and prospects. This team has been stagnant for three years going on to what seems to be four years of not being good enough to make the playoff buy not bad enough to get a high end prospect.

I know we have a new owner and that opens the room to go after some of these highly sought after FA but my thing is even if we do have the space for them why would they want to sign in Dallas? This is a team that is most likely going to miss the playoffs for a fourth year, and barring some off season moves I’d wager it’ll be more of the same next season until more of the young talent makes it to the Stars.

Others probably disagree but Morrow and Robidas are two names that I think would be the best to move. Robidas might not as high a value as he would’ve had a year or two ago but at the trade deadline both him and Morrow could get good returns from teams trying to go far in the playoffs. I know there would be issues with NTC/NMC but something needs to be done to change this team, not being a serious team to make the playoffs and being stagnant hovering around 10-15 draft area is getting old.

Another thing who was the last center drafted by Dallas that was good enough to be atleast a #2? I’ve only started getting into hockey after the lockout so don’t know to much about the Stars drafting but it looks like the last good center was Modano. I know Benn is playing center but he was a winger converted to center and while he’s doing good it seems a bit odd to me that the Stars havn’t been able to draft a natural center with atleast #2 ability since Modano. Anyways the whole point of this was Dallas needs to draf a center badly.

And what would be the minimum acceptable return?

What if NJ is willing to trade Parise straight up for Kari and we got another veteran from another team?

I don’t see us trading for much otherwise.