Murray= Collosal Idiot

I don’t know why our blueline won’t improve because of the Frenchie pickup — and if he played well with Scotty, I think he can play well with Cam.

But your analysis seems half-complete. A Gardiner for Frenchie straight up deal would suck, but we get to ditch Lupul’s money going forward — that makes it much more tolerable to ditch a prospect, in my eyes anyways.

Here’s what I wrote way too late for AC:

EARL:

I’m with Jen here — I don’t truly understand the outrage of Ducks fans, but then again, I don’t track prospects very well (sometimes, not at all). Jake Gardiner might be very good someday, but that day isn’t today, and the Ducks need some blueline capabilities sooner rather than later. Sure, it’s costly, but it’s not like Anaheim doesn’t have a surplus of young talented defensemen — with Fowler and Sbisa both making the jump to the big leagues, it seems we have a lot of future with the young talent already in a Ducks uniform.

As it pertains to Joffrey Lupul, I’m glad to be out from that contract — that to me is the tradeoff for giving up Gardiner. Sure, Joffrey has fought valiantly to get back into the lineup, but especially from his fixture on the 3rd line, he’s grossly overpaid for what he produces. The fact that his contract extends two more seasons without any reduction in pay also factors in here — on his best season, he might live up to that $4.25M, but it’d take a solid combination of linemates and luck to accomplish that.

I don’t care much about 4th or 6th round picks in general, but that applies doubly when Brian Burke is the one doing the drafting. I am not scared of what that pick becomes in the slightest.

And with Beauchemin, we get a known and proven asset who has shown his ability to complement a smooth-skating defensive partner — it seems he’d be a great fit with Cam Fowler, and who knows? Maybe he could cajole his old buddy Scott Niedermayer into playing a few shifts, too (I kid, kind of).

At any rate, I am solidly behind this deal — we’re dealing from an area of excess (promising d-man prospects) and ditching one of our heavier contracts in favor of an improved blueline that we can implement for the remainder of this season. I like Beauchemin, especially if he plays a role off our top pairing — good to have you back, Frenchie.

We’ll see — if Beauch is the new Whitney, I don’t know why he can’t be traded next year. I mean, the actual Whitney was — twice!

Also: Terry Murray.

Good thing there’s misspellings in the post title, though — that narrows it quickly down to a Ducks Murray. :)

I’m not sure I truly understand that point. For one — we’ve seen both Whitney and Beauchemin play — I don’t know why I should confuse one for the other.

And secondly, I think Beauchemin would be more tradeable than Whitney. Cup ring and all.

It’s a year-and-a-half since Burkie signed Beauchemin, and I’m not sure it’s buyer’s remorse so much as the Leafs need to concentrate much more on 2013 than 2011.

And Cam can play the Scotty role for Frenchie, no? I wouldn’t rule it out before seeing it, at least.

Lupul’s $4.25M/yr non-declining contract — to me, that’s key.

And also, we’re not paying Beauch’s high salaries for his contract — had we signed him back then, we would have had to. He’s cheaper now than he was that summer, if you’re willing to forget about salary-cap averaged math.

I struggle with the cap dynamics on these deals. I do kind of understand what Earl is explaining, but my emotion can’t get by it. I feel the same as you Scottyknow.

If Jake was not in the deal i’m ok with it.