Phaneuf Still Being Shopped, Eric Staal Rumored To Be Offered

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

This is straight from HockeyBuzz...
 

Dion Phaneuf - Leafs are trying to move him, and are getting some calls on him as well. The Sharks, Panthers and Hurricanes are the 3 teams I'm hearing that have interest in him. Keep hearing Eric Staal's name in there for a possible Phaneuf deal. If he's not moved by draft he'll remain a Leaf.

I really don't like this trade, but if it happened it would have to be an over-payment for me.

 

Toronto Receives: Eric Staal, Patrick Dwyer

Carolina Receives: Dion Phaneuf, Nazem Kadri, and Joffrey Lupul

 

The roster would look like...

 

Jeff Skinner - Nazem Kadri - Alexander Semin

??? - Jordan Staal - Elias Lindholm

Joffrey Lupul - Riley Nash - ???

??? - ??? - ???

 

Free Agents: Drayson Bowman, Radek Dvorak, Nathan Gerbe, Andrei Loktionov, Manny Malhotra, Jiri Tlusty

 

Andrej Sekera - Dion Phaneuf

Justin Faulk - ???

John Michael-Liles - Jay Harrison

Ryan Murphy

 

Free Agents: Brett Bellemore, Ron Hainsey, Mike Komisarek, Joni Pitkanen

 

Anton Khudobin

Cam Ward

 

Free Agents: Justin Peters
 

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

No need to start a new thread but Gormley of CSN Washington thinks Edmonton would part with Sam Gagner or Nail Yakupov for Eric Staal.

 

In my opinion it would take both from the Canes perspective. Staal is being vastly underrated by many. He is a 0.89 point per game player... compare that to Phil Kessel who is widely considered on the U.S.'s best hockey players who is a 0.78 point per game player.

 

For me, it would have to be Gagner and Yakupov for Staal for a top six of...

 

Skinner - Yakupov - Semin

Gagner - J. Staal - Lindholm

 

[Jakob]

I don't know who it will be for but, I feel like Francis is about to pull off a really good trade.