Wonder how the Avs got good

[Ebenezer]

Look at the guys they drafted #1 while they were the Nordiques:

1989 - Quebec Mats Sundin RW Nacka (Sweden)

1990 - Quebec Owen Nolan RW Cornwall (OHL)

1991 - Quebec Eric Lindros C Oshawa (OHL)

They moved each of these guys for lots of talent that made them a powerhouse...

[Judge]

Originally posted by Ebenezer
Look at the guys they drafted #1 while they were the Nordiques:

1989 - Quebec Mats Sundin RW Nacka (Sweden)

1990 - Quebec Owen Nolan RW Cornwall (OHL)

1991 - Quebec Eric Lindros C Oshawa (OHL)

They moved each of these guys for lots of talent that made them a powerhouse...

What's your point? That Regier can trade Tim Connolly for "tons of talent" like Quebec did with those guys?

Nah- the only guys we have who have trade value that could help our team are the young goalies.

[Ebenezer]

Originally posted by Judge
Nah- the only guys we have who have trade value that could help our team are the young goalies.


I could handle it if they traded one of the goals...I don't think it will happen though. Reiger has it in his head that the only way to win and keep it cheap is to have solid goaltending and a bunch of other players. Hence, his relutance to move one of the three.

[Fat Tony]

This is how Colorado did it...


Made the city of Quebec suffer wih a dismal hocky franchise for years, and accumulated high #1 draft picks.

Traded these guys for more, better players.

Moved to Colorado, won the whole pot of chilli.



Soooo.... if the Sabres continue to suck, accumulate a wealth of high picks, move to Portland or Seattle, then the Cup is ours!!!

[Don Cherry]

Quebec Drafted very well over the years. Here are the notables


1987
Overall
9 D Bryan Fogarty
15 C Joe Sakic ....still playing
72 C Kip Miller ....with the Caps... Not terrible
114 G Garth Snow .............OK goalie for that spot in the draft

1988
3 D Curtis Leschyshyn .....D Ottawa
24 G Stephane Fiset ...........so so Goalie.. in the Minorrs now
66 C Darin Kimble ........OK career
129 L Valeri Kamensky .......NJ still playing
213 D Alexei Gusarov .......good career
234 C Claude Lapointe ........Boston

1989
1 C Mats Sundin....... Traded for Wendel Clark, Sylvain Lefebvre, Landon Wilson (They got ripped off)
22 D Adam Foote .......excellent

1990
1 R Owen Nolan .............SJ leader
148 R Andrei Kovalenko ...............Traded for Roy
158 D Alexander Karpovtsev

1991
1 C Eric Lindros ....bum...see trade below
24 L Rene Corbet
68 D Dave Karpa
103 L Bill Lindsay
156 D Janne Laukkanen

1992
4 L Todd Warriner
52 G Manny Fernandez
196 G Steve Passmore
220 C Anson Carter

1993
10 G Jocelyn Thibault .............traded for Roy
14 R Adam Deadmarsh

1994
12 D Wade Belak
72 C Chris Drury
87 R Milan Hejduk

[Don Cherry]

Lindros brought them Peter Forsberg, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne, two first-round picks (one used to select Jocelyn Thibault and the other traded twice, eventually used by the Capitals to draft Nolan Baumgartner) and $15 million.

The Rangers were shut out at the last second by an arbritrator, when Quebec tried to pull out of the Philly deal. the Rangers benefited from not landing Lindros. Their deal with the Nordiques for Lindros would have included a goaltender (Mike Richter or John Vanbiesbrouck) a forward (Tony Amonte or Adam Graves), Alexei Kovalev, James Patrick and $20 million .

Great article on the deal here (http://www.msnbc.com/news/799872.asp)

[Don Cherry]

The Avalanche then stole Patrick Roy and Canadien's gritty captain Mike Keane to Colorado for young goalie Jocelyn Thibault and wingers Andrei Kovalenko and Martin Rucinsky.