Quote Originally Posted by palmerq View Post
Phaneuf would be bad for the hurricanes I think, he hits hard but I think he just isnt worth the money and years his contract has right now.... Better to swipe picks and prospects from toronto .. Toronto has insane media and fan pressure to win games and get to the playoffs(even if they do bugger all there), so I think toronto would be a greta victim to rob in a trade.. I also guess if eric staal leaves then jordan staal would leave too, as I'm pretty sure he only wanted to go there because of eric.. I'd trade em both, rob some desperate teams blind and rebuild for a fresh assualt on the cup in 5 years !
There's also Jared Staal (not the best of the brothers to be honest) but yeah I'm thinking the Staal experiment has run it's course.

The Hurricanes have started off very poor, the coach I guess is trying his best, I don't know. I think we're just in a state of transition at the moment. We don't have the top veterans we had with Francis, Brind'Amour, Doug Weight, Cory Stillman, Glen Wesley, Gary Roberts, Kevyn Adams, Eric Cole, Mark Recci, Aaron Ward, Bret Hedican et al.

We've got Eric & Jordan Staal, Tim Gleason, John-Michael Liles, Tlusty, and Semin and that's 100% it for "veteran leaders" (who are any good)...now Carolina does have some great youthful players who need to be given the reigns as soon as possible: Skinner, Faulk, Murphy, Lindholm, Rask....those guys will be very good but we need to add players that help them develop or get the best out of them.

I think we could have added guys in the offseason who would have helped but our cap is tight at the moment. Still can't buy a win for the moment