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Forum: NHLJan. 31, 2018 at 9:13 a.m.
Thread: Which active players deserve to have their numbers retired today?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tadhockey</b></div><div>Absolutely not on Cam Ward. Although the management seems to love him (for some ridiculous reason), he's been a better than .920 goalie once in his career, in an era where the average save percentage hung around .916. Staal, Price, Miller, and Weber, while key players, I do not believe we part of sufficient team accomplishments required to get their number retired. Kronwall really was never the dominant defenseman he was made out to be, especially not so to hang equal with Lidstrom.

Luongo didn't really play enough with the Panthers to get his number retired IMO.

The rest of the list I could at least somewhat see, although I don't really believe Koivu will have his number retired.

Also, are we giving no credit to Evgeni Malkin again? What about Anze Kopitar (who may not have the numbers quite yet, but should be well on his way)?</div></div>

i Think Price Should Have his Number retired.
Forum: NHLJan. 30, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.
Thread: Reasoning About Carey Price & Max Pacioretty
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rangersandislesfan</b></div><div>That doesn't look like quite enough for Pacioretty IMO.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AK_tune</b></div><div>Just want to add some thoughts from a Blues fan's perspective (I'm with you that none of this is likely to happen):

Price with $2M retained on his extension (and this year)
for
Allen + Thompson + Schmaltz + 2019 1st + 2019 2nd + 2020 2nd

Pacioretty + Benn
for
Sobotka + Gunnarsson + Thompson/Kostin + 2019 2nd

It might not give MTL all the best tools for their rebuild, but some of the pieces (Allen, Sobotka, Gunnarsson) could be flipped for more picks/prospects. Any STL trades this season will be tricky because they have zero cap space. I'm not comfortable losing Robert Thomas in either trade; if he's the fire-starter, I'd rather not go through with it, although he is probably a realistic candidate. I don't really endorse any of these 'win-now' moves for the Blues - looking at their current team structure, I think their window is going to be open for a while, no need to rush into any blockbuster moves. Maybe next year when we have more realistic expectations/ceilings set for some of the younger prospects.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rangersandislesfan</b></div><div>That doesn't look like quite enough for Pacioretty IMO.</div></div>

Agreed