There are still four days until the trade deadline and six 2022 first-round picks have already been traded to selling clubs, not counting… nine second-round picks.
Posted at 11:40 a.m.
You have to go back to 2013 to find such contempt for a cuvée. Seven first-round picks had been traded before the draft, in addition to twelve second-round picks!
The future will tell us which buyers or sellers will be right. But we understand a little better why Kent Hughes was hell-bent on a first-round pick in 2023 for Ben Chiarot.
Let’s see who had the edge in 2013. The highest traded pick, ninth overall, saw the New Jersey Devils acquire goaltender Cory Schneider to succeed Martin Brodeur.
Schneider was only 27 and gave the Devils five great years, but the Canucks were able to get their hands on eventual captain Bo Horvat.
Of the six other picks obtained by sellers, only two produced NHL regulars, Nikita Zadorov and Jason Dickinson, but in supporting roles.
The other four, Kerby Rychel, Émile Poirier, Marko Dano and Morgan Klimchuk have never broken through.
For their pick that gave Rychel, the Blue Jackets traded captain Rick Nash. He remained six years in New York thereafter and reached with the Rangers a Stanley Cup final and a four aces.
Columbus also got rid of Jeff Carter that year. They gave it to the Los Angeles Kings for Jack Johnson and the first draft pick that would become Marko Dano. Carter played ten years in Los Angeles and won two Stanley Cups with them.
The St. Louis Blues traded their first-round pick to the Flames for defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. Poirier played eight career NHL games, Bouwmeester played eight years for the Blues and won the Stanley Cup with them in 2019 before seeing his career cut short the following year after suffering cardiac arrest.
The Flames received another first-round pick, this time from the Penguins, in return for captain Jarome Iginla. This was the only rental player among the four exchanges cited here. Pittsburgh reached the semi-finals and Iginla had 12 points in 15 games. Klimchuk has played only one career NHL game.
Zadorov became a regular in the National League and served as a piece, along with Mikhail Grigorenko and JT Compher to get Ryan O’Reilly, but we traded to the Wild Jason Pominville, who had just amassed 73 points the previous year and who played four more seasons at Minnesota.
The last first-round pick passed to a seller allowed the Bruins to get Jaromir Jagr on loan. Jagr had 10 points in 22 games on his way to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2013. Dickinson never had more than 22 points in a season and was traded to the Canucks last year for a pick. third round.
There is obviously a salary factor to consider. Four of those seven deals freed up space on their payroll for the sellers, but they didn’t put it to very good use afterwards.
The second-round picks obtained by sellers, including two by the Canadiens, did not produce great results either.
Only two have played more than 200 games in the National League, Jacob De La Rose and Compher. De La Rose never became the expected defensive center and he was lost on waivers in 2017. After four more seasons in Detroit and St. Louis, he continues his career in his native Sweden in Farjestad. But it cost only Andrei Kostitsyn whose it was about his last blows of the blade in the National League.
This accumulation of second-round picks by the CH (Zachary Fucale was drafted one spot after De La Rose with the pick obtained for Hal Gill) allowed the team to have a third pick at their disposal to draft Artturi Lehkonen in end of second round.
Let’s hope for the Canadian and the other sellers that the 2022 draft pays more. Montreal has two first-round picks and one second-round pick so far, the Coyotes have three first-round picks…and five second-round picks.
Artturi Lehkonen the next to leave?
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Artturi Lehkonen
“Artturi Lehkonen is now the piece on the market in Montreal, wrote the distinguished Darren Dreger Friday morning on Twitter. Lots of interest for this 26-year-old striker. It’s decision time for the Canadian. It could help Montreal for the next four or five years. We measure its value for the organization compared to what it could bring in. »
Lehkonen has just been relegated to third in team scoring by a graceful Cole Caufield, but he’s having the offensive season of his career with 28 points in 57 games, a 40-point pace on an 82 season. met. It will take at least a first-round pick or an interesting prospect to convince Kent Hughes.
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