Trades and Potential Trades

The Sens are being run now by a modern day Harold Ballard, owner gone rogue.

 

20 hours, tic-toc.

 

Sabres get Brendon Montour for a 1st rounder and Guhle from the Ducks.

24 yrs old and a 23 min a night D.

 

The 1st is not the sabres, it's either st. louis or SJ.

 

A lot of smoke about a possible Ristoleinen trade. This deal makes that more possible. And palatable* (* Sez the guy with a 55 Sabres sweater and a 5 Suomi sweater.)

 

He's a right shot, so Risto could be on his way out. On the sabres twitter feed there's some Ameriks fans talking highly of Guhl (21 yrs old).
A lot of fans attacking Montours -16, but that's kind of overrated considering he plays on the ducks.

 

Nich Baptiste is on his way from the Nashville org. to the Toronto org. It was just for future considerations. Not bad, skinny, for a good-sized fast skater that is still young enough to devolop into a reliable bottom six F.

 

Fans really liked Guhle. But he has been overtaken on the org. chart. Montour is clearly a big upgrade over Guhle. But it was frought with risk given the first too. I think this trade portents a bigger move; either by tomorrow or by July.

 

There's no doubt that Montour is an upgrade over Guhle, just the fact that he's an nhl roster player. Three first round picks can only get you so far, losing one for a 23 minute D man is worth the trade off.

 

Baptiste is a depth player, most likely to help the marlies for now.

 

Marlies for now, for sure. May prove to be a career AHLer, but he might crack your bottom six.
All in all a solid move since the price appears to be an ECHLer.

 

There's always room for a bottom six guy, and they shouldn't be paying them more than the league minimum. I assume he's probably quicker than Gauthier.

 

A San Jose Sharks team that appears to be as stacked as they come found a way to become deeper late on Sunday night.

The Sharks sent a second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft and a conditional third-round pick in the 2020 draft to the Detroit Red Wings to take over Gustav Nyquist‘s services — just hours after the Sharks downed Detroit 5-3 on Sunday evening (a game Nyquist scored in).

The deal is great value for the Sharks.

Nyquist helps round out the Sharks top-nine, and will likely slot in on a line with Joe Thornton and Kevin Labanc as he begins his life in the shark tank. He has 13 goals and 49 points in 62 games this season and is three assists and five points shy of matching career highs in both categories.

“Gustav is a talented, versatile forward who plays with speed and a strong hockey sense,” Sharks general manager Doug Wilson said. “His track record of strong play and character speak for themselves and we’re very excited to add him to our dressing room.”

TSN’s Bob McKenzie said Nyquist was asked to waive his no-trade clause. The answer, obviously, was yes.

“I’ve had eight amazing years in Detroit, but it’s gonna be great to come to Sharks and try and go all the way,” Nyquist reportedly told Sweden newspaper Aftonbladet.

The add of Nyquist helps solidify secondary scoring for the Sharks that was already doing well in that department.

The Sharks sit second in the Western Conference on 82 points, three back of the Calgary Flames (who have a game in hand).

According to TSN, the conditional third-rounder in 2020 would turn into a second-round pick if the Sharks make the Stanley Cup Final this year or they re-sign the 29-year-old. Nyquist is set to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. He’s closing out a four-year, $19 million deal with the Red Wings and has spent his eight-year NHL career in Detroit after being drafted in the fourth round in 2008.

Pierre LeBrun, also of TSN, reported that the Red Wings are retaining 30 percent of Nyquist’s remaining salary.

Given the volatility in the West at the moment, it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see the Sharks make it to the Cup Final. So the trade could fetch a better return in the end. We’d assume that a deal to re-sign Nyquist wasn’t going to happen, so the Red Wings — not making a playoff push, never mind one at the Cup — needed to get something in return.

The Red Wings, in rebuild mode, have already begun their sell-off after shipping off defenseman Nick Jensen to the Washington Capitals on Friday.

 

Carl Hagelin To the Capitals...

 

The Wings have three 2nd rounders in 2019 now.

 

This deal kind of sutprised me at first, I'm sure that they could've recieved a better return if they shopped him around earlier.

 

I agree… its kind of a head scratcher. The rebuild in Detroit also seems to be advancing at a snails pace. These draft/prospects are going to need developmental time, but hopefully a few all ready waiting in the wings (pun alert) will make a difference.

Im also concerned about Jimmy Howard. I thought he was a bargaining chip a while back, now ive no idea what their doing.

Im not the most patient guy in the world as some of you can tell.

In the words of 'Sting' ~ " I cant, I cant, I cant stand losing".

 

Anaheim Ducks acquire defenseman Patrick Sieloff from Ottawa Senators for forward Brian Gibbons.

Do the Senators have a team left?

 

Wings didn't want to give him the term he's looking for in july, so they decided he wasn't in the future plans. I just thought maybe they could've got a first from a team like the habs, jets or pens. A prospect to go with two 2nd rounders would've been ideal.

 

Which playoff team could use Jimmy? The leafs could use him for insurance, at what cost?