HAWKS/HABS

[anton]

To MTL:

Chris Kunitz
2011 4th CHI

To CHI:

Kurtis Foster
2011 7th PIT

[Chuck Norris]

Confirmed.

Great first deal between our teams.

[The BBKL Insider]

sure is a great deal

for Montreal.

[anton]

what was i thinking getting a 42 pt (in 71 games) d-man with a 1.8 mill cap hit for the worst of my 10 NHL wingers!

[The BBKL Insider]

what was i thinking getting a 42 pt (in 71 games) d-man with a 1.8 mill cap hit for the worst of my 10 NHL wingers!

Foster is good, no doubt....but he was the man last year in TB on a good offensive team.

I can't see him putting up 40+ points again.


Kunitz on the other hand, can be a serious H2H beast esp if he's playing with Crosby all year.

[anton]

kunitz = 50 pts and 180 hits. 3.75 cap hit, limited pp time.

foster = 40 pts and 80 blocked shots. 1.8 cap hit, ample pp time.

like i said, i had wingers to burn...kunitz being by far the most expendable.

even if neal signs for 5 and mueller for 3 (both of which wont happen) i now have over 5 mill to shop with.

[Shoalzie]

Foster is a very nice pickup for the Hawks to give him offense as a reduced price. As Anton said, he had wingers to move so he did a nice job in flipping one of his expendable pieces for a nice value guy in Foster. It's a solid trade for both sides.

[Scott]

I would've went with the other Dman that was being offered.. you know who I'm talking about Anton!

[anton]

I would've went with the other Dman that was being offered.. you know who I'm talking about Anton!

you're such a wiener.

[Scott]

you're such a wiener.

Not Yandle lol.. the other one

[The BBKL Insider]

All of your active Dman are better than Foster

so i'm quite interested in who it would have been.

[inferno31]

All of your active Dman are better than Foster

so i'm quite interested in who it would have been.

It wasn't one of Scott's players.

[Robin Hood]

cough *vlasic* cough.

[The BBKL Insider]

Vlasic >>> Foster


however, he also makes twice as much.


So im sure that played a factor

[anton]

vlasic's diminished role in SJ this year scared me a bit.

with the rise of Demers, im not sure that changes this season either.

[Robin Hood]

if anything, the retirement of blake increases the value of vlassic a LOT. demers' rise doesnt change anything.

[The BBKL Insider]

I'm with shiv there.

However, like i said earlier, Fosters cap hit is pretty nice compared to The pickle.

[anton]

if anything, the retirement of blake increases the value of vlassic a LOT. demers' rise doesnt change anything.

how can blake's retirement increase vlasic's value "A LOT" but the rise of demers not change anything?

blake is only 1 person. him retiring opens up 1 spot on the pp next to boyle.

demers outpointed vlasic in 15 less games last season.

vlasic 16 pts in 64 games.
demers 21 pts in 51 games.

vlasic pp per game: 1:43
demers pp per game: 2:22

demers was already getting more points and pp time vlasic last season.

vlasic may get some of blake's shtoi mins, but demers will get his pp time and they will likely split the ES time.

my d is loaded with shtoi guys (gorges, wis, tyutin, hjalmarsson), i needed straight offence. i got it.

foster > vlasic offensively.

there also seems to be this weird perception that i could have just substituted vlasic into this deal and neel would have taken it. in reality, neel didn't want to do kunitz straight up for vlasic and wanted me to add a piece.

in conclusion: i got the better (imo) player for a better deal and a cheaper price.