Comments on: Montoya to Phoenix

By: mitchamac

mitchamac — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:01:15 +0000

Tellquist is a free agent at the end of the year adding a montoya is looking pretty good. now phoenix has a lot of young players that went through NCAA hockey

By: LaKingsFan626

LaKingsFan626 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:43:11 +0000

Wow just wow. Who would have thought the Coyotes would go from such bad goaltending at the beginning of the season to owning Bryz and Montoya. Man would someone teach Dean Lombardi how to pull something like this off? I hope Phoenix makes the playoffs because they somehow pulled off a good season by not making a move in the offseason.

By: paulieplatypus

paulieplatypus — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:03:25 +0000

Nevermind… But if anyone has some futher information on the conditional draft pick the Coyotes gave the Rangers, It would be great to know how to get that type of information.

By: paulieplatypus

paulieplatypus — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:57:40 +0000

Marcel Hossa is 28 years old not 26 I'm fairly certain… The other night during the Rangers/Panthers game Sam Rosen, the Rangers broadcast announcer, if I heard him correctly ??? mentioned that, "Hossa the 26 year old was in the lineup replacing Colton Orr who is day to day". Soon after Sam corrected himself and explained Hossa is 28 years old not 26. But looking at all the profile information from every source that I have checked today lists Hossa as 26. Anyway, I was busy doing other things while half listining to the game and cannot say with 100% accuracy what Sam exactly said… So, if anyone has some more solid information on this subject, let me know. But maybe we don't mention this to Kramer aye because he'll just think this is a conspiracy of some sort. Also the Rangers received a conditional draft pick in the deal with the Coyotes… Anyone have any information on this or might know a website that would list such particulars involving conditional draft picks etc for each of these trade and transactions etc?Thank you.

By: nosnow_here

nosnow_here — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:15:18 +0000

No way on Mueller or any other young prospects. Not with the direction the Yotes are going now. All youth. Not going to trade away any prospects or draft picks. At least that is what Maloney is saying. Got to trust him I guess. Beats the Hell out of our previous GM.

By: nosnow_here

nosnow_here — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:12:45 +0000

Sjostrom is great on the PK. Shot blocker and non-stop hustler. Takes a beating out there and keeps coming back for more. Fan favorite in Phoenix. NY got a great player in this one. He has been a healthy scratch several times this year and still has 10 goals. Gratton is a great fighter!. Get ready for some full tilt action with him. Not much of a player though.

By: nosnow_here

nosnow_here — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:10:44 +0000

Sjostrom is great on the PK. Shot blocker and non-stop hustler. Takes a beating out there and keeps coming back for more. Fan favorite in Phoenix.

By: AntropovGoodIToldUSo

AntropovGoodIToldUSo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:25:40 +0000

BoBo always getting dealt. Is this like his 4th team this year? Life of a journeyman hockey player is tough man…

By: NHLman

NHLman — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:37:48 +0000

    I feel like Montoya should have brought back more, however, when you take everything into consideration the trade is very reasonable and might be the most balanced trade of the day. First, as has been stated Lundqvist is the goalie in NY and with his new contract isn't going anywhere. Second, Montoya will be an RFA and will definitely expect a raise from his entry contract, which would mean over $1 million, which is too much in the salary cap world. Plus, a different team could have signed him away at a price where we would only get a 2nd or 3rd round draft pick in return. Maybe most important, Sjostrom is a young talented player that can fill a hole in the roster next year with Straka, Jagr, and Shanahan all possibly gone. I am not overly familiar with him but believe he is in the power forward mold, these players usually take longer to develop so he might turn out to be a good player yet.
    Marcel Hossa is a useful player. As a regular third-liner or fourth-liner he is valuable as he has both size and skill. Hossa should help the Coyotes. In their system he could find success.
    LeNevue is a solid prospect and Gratton is a throw in.

By: rangers11

rangers11 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:15:32 +0000

heres my thoughts....

montoya may have the potential to be a very good goaltender, but with henrik locked up he is expendable. also, montoya hasnt even been the number 1 goalie in hartford this season, wiikman has. thats another reason hes been expendable. montoya also tends to get hurt a lot. on top of all of that, hes going to be a restricted free agent after this season. chances are another team would make him an offer over 1 million (which is already too much with hank locked up with his contract) and we wouldnt match it. idk what the compensation would be, but this way we get a player in return. replacing montoya is lenevue. his numbers this year in the ahl are comparable to montoya. also he was a top goalie at cornell and benoit allaire (sp?) says he can work with him. thats good enough for me. while i do feel that maybe we could have gotten more for him, maybe we really couldnt. huet only fetched montreal a second rounder, so you never know. i doubt anyone has any attachment to hossa, i know i dont, and i dont care that he is gone. gratton probably wont do much but does add some grit if he were to be in the nhl. the main piece is sjostrom. he actually played juniors with lundqvist in sweden so theres a connection (christian backman who we got from stl also played with henrik on frolunda a few years back) notice how were moving away from the czech theme and getting swedes? anyway sjostrom was a former 11th overall pick and is only 24. he adds some scoring to the 3/4 lines, most likely the 4th. as much as i love the HBO line, the truth of the matter is they dont score. plus, with the amount that renney plays them in important games, you need them to be more productive on the score sheet. when it comes down to it, both hollweg and orr dont need to be in the lineup. one will do.

overall i think the trades will help us. if theres any issues that anyone has with giving up montoya, just remember that hes in phoenix behind a real good goalie (ilya brz) and well prob face him 2 times a year at best. we wont see much about him and that should help us forget about what he could be. oh and theres one more reason why we should forget about him...

HENRIK! HENRIK! HENRIK!!!!!!