kenhodgejr Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Summer trade To Van: Ross Johnston - 24 years old, 6'5 236lbs LW This guy wins fights in devastating fashion. We need a guy like this to replace dorset and keep teams honest around Pettersson. Except this guy could actually handle the heavy weights in the league. Archibald is not a fighter and we can't rely sold on Gudbranson. To NYI: Markus Granlund Ben Hutton Next Year Leipsic Horvat Boeser Sedin Sedin Petterson Goldobin Sutter Eriksson Johnston Motte Virtanen Gaunce Gaudette Archibald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Why wouldn't the NYI just keep him? Looks like he is playing pretty well there in NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Agreed that the team needs more overall toughness moving forward, but that's a huge overpayment by us for an unproven, one-dimensional guy who may never become a full-time player in the league,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Hutton has been scratched multiple times. He is no longer waiver eligible and comes with a close to 3M contract. Any team acquiring him will have to develop him at the NHL level. He's not worth his contract and if he can't progress demoting him to the AHL would still have him count for ~1.8M against the cap. Does he really have any trade value? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 6 hours ago, kenhodgejr said: Summer trade To Van: Ross Johnston - 24 years old, 6'5 236lbs LW This guy wins fights in devastating fashion. We need a guy like this to replace dorset and keep teams honest around Pettersson. Except this guy could actually handle the heavy weights in the league. Archibald is not a fighter and we can't rely sold on Gudbranson. To NYI: Markus Granlund Ben Hutton Next Year Leipsic Horvat Boeser Sedin Sedin Petterson Goldobin Sutter Eriksson Johnston Motte Virtanen Gaunce Gaudette Archibald I like where your going with this, we need a guy like this on our fourth line, don't have any problems with your suggested players either, maybe NYI counters with something a little different but it can't be that far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kloubek Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I agree that we could use his size, and his short time with the Islanders shows me he has SOME potential to contribute. His minor league experience doesn't show very good scoring promise though. This does seem like overpayment, but both Hutton's value and Granlund's value are pretty low right now and that might be the best we can do. If he can skate (I know nothing about this guy), and has at least some scoring potential, I might be game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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