Russo tweets that the Wild are considering trading Rossi because he is too small

23 comments

1. That would instantly make me turn on Billy G and lose faith in upper management.

2. Is it april 1st already?

3. Small guys are fine during the regular season but when the rubber meets the road in the playoffs under sized guys evaporate.

4. https://preview.redd.it/xuca6qig8cqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42c510e6a49fdb07af2fa3ac7b9c014f210fb398

5. CaUse gRiT…🥴

6. I’ll change hockey teams with my move from mn then. ( probably not)

7. Fuck that. He’s been one of the best players on the team. Don’t trade a future core player to chase aging vets.

8. I will be calling for Leipold’s head if this happens

9. This isn’t just Russo being a smart ass on Twitter?

   I don’t see how the management could think like that considering the way Rossi has performed in his official rookie season.

10. Small skill guys are great if we got the large big body guys to complement them. Hedman, pieterangelo, guys like that are key for a cup winning team. I love 46 but we need a top 2 defenseman who’s a big shut down body.

11. Title of this post is shit. Russo thinks the Wild are considering it. Slight but important difference

12. If we do that fire billy. Extensions+a rossi trade would be two massively dumb decisions

13. I feel like there is something going on they’re not telling us. I’m paranoid that the locker room is being dictated by a few players again and mgmt is listening.

    Rossi stayed here and bulked up. Showed dedication by missing his sister’s wedding. Has played his ass off while still being put on low lines a lot of the time. What more can he do unless someone important in the locker room just doesn’t like him? And that person has sway with Billy.

    Long story short, if they trade Rossi we better get a really good reason or fuck this team (aka BG and owner). You bring in your friends who suck ass, sign dinosaurs to long term deals, and stunt our young guys who are the only ones busting their ass.

14. he “thinks” they considering it. big distinction.

15. Bullshit. If a team offers something pretty substantial, sure, but I doubt Guerin is dumb enough to trade a 20-goal rookie unless he knows some offer we don’t.

16. Russo is basically a redditor with a broader audience.

17. If the wild hockey subreddit can’t believe it, then believe it. It’s full of morons that don’t think the team needed a rebuild and wanted to just win and take 1st rd exits gladly.

18. Bill Guerin is already a fucking clown but if he shops Rossi because of size concerns I’d quit watching the team until his stupid ass is fired. What a ridiculous argument. Let’s highlight a couple of the best players over the last decade, who are comparable to Rossi in size:

    Brayden Point – 5’10, 180.
    Claude Giroux – 5’11”, 185.
    Sidney Crosby – 5’11”, 200.
    Brad Marchand – 5’9, 180.
    William Nylander – 5’11”, 195.
    Marco Rossi – 5’9, 185.

    Huh. Crazy. He is already bigger than Marchand and is comparable to Point and Giroux, and within spitting distance of Nylander and Crosby. What crazy company this guy is in. Don’t get me wrong, I realize Rossi is unlikely to be as good as any of these other players – very few are – but come on. He has the draft pedigree, the juniors stats, and the rookie NHL stats right in line with half these guys. He can absolutely still be a good Center.

    But Guerin’s idea of a good center is Charlie Stramel, who scored 8 points in 33 games this year as a College Sophomore and hasn’t scored double digit goals since he was a Bantam. Maybe Guerin isn’t qualified to say who is and isn’t a good center, what a clown. Get rid of this bum.

19. I honestly believe the wild as a franchise has made absolute shit trades that never go our way and when we do have someone special, we trade them.

20. I can’t imagine a worse thing to do.

21. Tbf, it’s also possible that Russo is referring to Nick’s second comment, we may trade him in order to get someone that would push him down the roster anyways, maybe like an older but more skilled center.

    Edit: to be clear, I think this would be a bad idea.

22. in absolutely no way would I ever want to do this, but let’s entertain the idea. What would we be looking for in a package? Would we be trading Rossi for prospects or trading Rossi + more for a star?

23. Hynes probably likes Rossi since he just put him on the top line and top power play in recent games, and Guerin handpicked Hynes as the new coach. I doubt Russo is saying this out of nowhere, but I wouldn’t panic about it being a big thing at the moment.