Trouba traded to the Rangers
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https://twitter.com/Account4hockey/status/1140799606940454913
AvroArrow said:
It sounds like he wasn't interested in signing a long-term deal with a Canadian team, and also fitting in his contract would have been tricky. But the first part was probably the bigger issue.
Bates said:
bustaheims said:
Admittedly I didn't realize his usage was quite that high but I'm still not going to hold my breathe that he's better than any replacement level guy you could pick up in free agency.
princedpw said:
Well "better" is obviously subjective. Maybe Winnipeg really likes what they see in Pionk. Maybe they were less enthusiastic about the other pieces other NHL teams wanted to send than the other GMs were.
One thing that I think cost Winnipeg here is not using all of the time that they had. They should have waited until the draft weekend at least where all the GMs were in one spot to try and pit competing offers against each other. I don't see the rush in getting this done a week before the UFA period starts. I doubt the Rangers would have backed off or gotten cold feet.
https://twitter.com/mikemcintyrewpg/status/1140795147757768704
So much for Pionk getting easier minutes. The Jets think they're getting a legit top-4 defenceman here.
So much for Pionk getting easier minutes. The Jets think they're getting a legit top-4 defenceman here.
Nik the Trik said:
True. A team like Detroit for instance didn't have an additional 1st round draft pick and they maybe didn't want to use their 6th overall pick on Trouba (although I would have considered it). They did have three 2nd rounders though (35th, 54th, 60th) that they were maybe willing to part with. New Jersey is another team that I bet would have been all over Trouba and they also didn't have a late 1st but had weirdly the same 2nd rounders as Detroit (34th, 55th, 61st).
Philly to me was always the most intriguing team in the Trouba sweepstakes. He and Provorov on their top pair or in their top-4 would have been pretty amazing. They had some interesting trade pieces to peddle too (11th overall, Sanheim, Ghostbear).
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princedpw said:
Sure. There's also going to be a little bit of CYA here where, as we can see in this thread, a lot of people are going to be asking why their GM couldn't beat this offer and it's easy enough to say to a "reporter" like Friedman that you totally had a better offer on the table so nobody can question your performance.