How active will the Coyotes be on the Trade Deadline?

I could see Penner of Hejduk being very valuable, for different reasons. Penner would be great to matchup against divisional foes like Ryan Getzlaf. He is like a more talented Martin Hanzal with his size and tangible gifts. Hejduk would be a huge upgrade to the power play with his scoring prowess. He and the Wizard together would be unbelievable, and considering the Coyotes and Avalanche do not shy away from being trading partners, I could see that deal happening… Its a matter of cost really. I do not have time to look up each player’s salary and if its even reasonable to think that the Yotes could take on more of it, but I do think that the Yotes are one clutch scorer away from being a very dangerous team come playoff time. I think that Rozy shored up the defense quite well, so the amount of moves I see GMDM making is most likely one, with maybe some moves for future prospects if the opportunity comes. If they stand pat I would not be too disappointed, but I definitely do not want to see a major shakeup, just a solid addition so that the Yotes have another 20 goal guy. Easier said than done.

Not to mention, the Czech line would be really sweet!

Vrbata Hanzal Hejduk

Wow, I would love to see that!

He would be a huge upgrade to the Coyotes offensive unit, and I hear he is available (for a steep price). Do the Coyotes really need their #1 draft pick this year? It seems like they are full of prospects and could afford to use it to get a proven vet like either of the three mentioned above as long as they wouldn’t be a half-year rental…. Thoughts?

does that impact whether he is tradeable or not? I think he is going to be out a few weeks, it will impact his trade value, but I also think GMDM needs to seriously consider trading him out now. What are the odds he resigns at a huge discount this summer? Not likely, especially with Bryz coming due for a huge contract as well. So will he be that valuable to the team the rest of this year? What if you could get a serviceable D-man in a trade that could contribute right away if you shipped him out?

I don’t post often, but I truly believe we make very few moves at the trade deadline.

The major issue at hand for the ‘Yotes is what do we give up that makes our team better in both the short term and long term. Trading a player like Turris or Boedker may improve us now for a rental player, but we’ve made mistakes with players such as Briere before, and the rental player is not a guarantee to stay. If we are going to be wrong about any of our young players, this still isn’t the time to trade them. We still have next year or the draft to work them into trades.

With our defense having the glut of players and prospects, I would have said that a defenseman that is just about ready to make the jump is our most tradeable asset. But Jovo being out makes that a near impossibility.

The only type of trade that can make any sense is one where we improve our D, but still pick up players with a good future in the league to replace the ones we’d have to give up. Something like a Turris/Ahnelov/5th for Liles/Winnik/AHL defenseman. I doubt we’d consider that route, so I say stand pat, and we can move some people in the off-season if we don’t feel comfortable going forward with the player…

I can’t imagine anyone on the poll list joining our team, yet I can’t imagine anyone on our current roster leaving either. We no longer have someone like Prucha who Tippet just like scratching or Wolski who has an unbelievably bad stump with no signs he’ll get out. Jovo has no value at all, and he’s getting too old now with all this flu shit. If anything, we need better goaltending so we should trade for Nabokov.