I can't see them trading Klein but you never know. It will be a bit of a blow if Moore doesn't really pan out.
St.Louis is pretty much done after this season. The guy is not strong enough on the puck anymore. Not sure if it is his age or something else. I can see why Jagr has lasted this long. The guy is still one of the strongest guys in the nhl at his age and is hard to knock off the puck.
Looks like MSL is the latest guy for this board to turn on. We're talking about a guy who just won the Art Ross 2 seasons ago. Yes he looked atrocious in the regular season when he was traded here but after playing 12 years for one team lets give him the benefit of the doubt. For all the crap we gave Nash about his playoff performance we should be giving just as much propts to MSL for his 15 points in 25 games. That's pretty damn good considering what he was dealing with. This year so far he is playing completely out of position. Lets see what he does when he is moved back to RW and paired with a good setup man like Step before we declare the guy dead. No chance this guy is done after this year. MAYBE if we win the cup and he decides to go out on top. Other than that, no way.
I think MSL will take less also, but the issue with Staal is not just finding money to pay him 5.6 or so per, the issue is having another dman locked up at bigger money. Plus Nash at bigger money. Plus Hank at bigger money. You play with fire when you have players like Staal and Girardi making over 11 mill per when you have Hank at 8.5 per and Nash at 7.8 per already. Just not sure we need Staal at that cap number IF we have faith in some of the kids. If we don't...well that's a different story.
