Rick Nash traded to Rangers

I think it was a good move by Columbus, the Rangers on the other hand will be handcuffed by this contract for many years. They got a good player but lets see how he gels with the other players.

Columbus is going nowhere fast.

Yuck. Terrible move for C-Bus, but pretty much par for the Howson course. This move instantly makes Columbus a worse team and there's no guarantee that it helps them in the long run. Way too many question marks exchanged for a proven all-star.

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Originally Posted by Kubrick

Yuck. Terrible move for C-Bus, but pretty much par for the Howson course. This move instantly makes Columbus a worse team and there's no guarantee that it helps them in the long run. Way too many question marks exchanged for a proven all-star.

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Three decent players for one good player is not a bad move. Howson was handcuffed by Nash and the entire NHL knew it. He was lucky to get these three players. He wanted Nash (disease) out of Columbus so he could rebuild. It will take him a few years but it will happen. I remember a team once that took about five years to rebuild.

Lmao, what a donation.

poor Scott Howson can't catch a break. Glen Sather just called him Steve at the press conference about the trade.

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Originally Posted by Ice24

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Originally Posted by Kubrick

Yuck. Terrible move for C-Bus, but pretty much par for the Howson course. This move instantly makes Columbus a worse team and there's no guarantee that it helps them in the long run. Way too many question marks exchanged for a proven all-star.

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Three decent players for one good player is not a bad move. Howson was handcuffed by Nash and the entire NHL knew it. He was lucky to get these three players. He wanted Nash (disease) out of Columbus so he could rebuild. It will take him a few years but it will happen. I remember a team once that took about five years to rebuild.

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Columbus was never built, so I'm not sure "rebuild" is the correct word choice.

Dubinsky is a good role player. Very limited in his offensive abilities. Anisimov is skilled and he has size but not much else. Erixon is a complete unknown. If this is the best that Howson could get, he should have held onto Nash until Nash really wanted out.

Howson blinked and he lost.

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Originally Posted by mmmcammy

poor Scott Howson can't catch a break. Glen Sather just called him Steve at the press conference about the trade.

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Kinda tells one what Sather thinks of him

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Originally Posted by jom

As bad as Howsen (and Maclean before him) have been I don't see how this was his fault. I'm pretty sure they talked to the teams that Nash "allowed" them to and this was probably the best they could do. That and the fact Nash is getting paid a LOT of money probably had something to do with the weak return.


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He should've traded him at the deadline. I guarantee what he considered weak offers back then were probably better than the offer he took today. Timing is critical when your dealing from a position of weakness and Howsen blew it.

IF Dubinsky gets back to scoring 20+ goals
IF Anisimov can be a 15-20 goal guy
IF Erixon can be a true top-4 NHL d-man
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IF they find a top-6 player with that 1st round pick

Columbus did ok.

Nash didn't want to be there and his contract is deadly. $7.8M for 6 more years is insane. Now the Rangers are paying 4 guys a total of almost $29M /year. that's nutty.

and if you look at Columbus, they now potentially have 3 first rounders next year (theirs, L.A. and NYR)

Umberger-Johanson-Atkinson
Foligno-Dubinsky-Anisimov
Prospal-Brassard-Dorsett
Calvert-Letestu-Boll

Johnson-Wiz
Murray-Aucoin
Nikitin-Tyutin/Erixon

Brobrovsky-Mason

they will likely try and trade Tyutin if Erixon is ready and if they can get a top-6 scoring winger in the next year or two they could be ok. they were going to suck with Nash, so why not try and get some guys and trade your vets (Tyutin?, Umberger?) and go real young?