GDT: 2025 HFSJ trade deadline GDT: Do we even have anything left to trade?

[Juxtaposer]

When you can trade Eklund's BFF for a 21 year old forward with 4 career NHL points, you just gotta do it.

 

[fasterthanlight]

Ostapchuk seems like a 3C at best? I'm sharpening my pitchfork haha

 

[OrrNumber4]

Yakumchuk coming back?

 

[Tw1ster]

When you can trade Eklund's BFF for a 21 year old forward with 4 career NHL points, you just gotta do it.

Well, he is 6’4

 

[Hodge]

Ostapchuk is a good get but hopefully there's a pick coming back in addition.

 

[SjMilhouse]

What the f*** is this trade?

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[BobGoblinn]

shoot me

 

[Baysick]

Horrible trade smh

 

[ChompChomp]

Bizarre. Grier wanted Gregor back? So he can cost us 1OA again?!

 

[OrrNumber4]

This might be one of those trades that defines Grier's time in SJS...hope he got more than a middling prospect for a promising young player who is a pending RFA.

 

[OrrNumber4]

Awful, awful, awful trade. This reeks of Grier/his team getting locked in on a prospect and severely overvaluing him. Some things never change.

Or, Grier has a mandate to slash costs next season and Zetterlund would have been too expensive.

 

[GRANdSharks]

Bruh why

 

[hockeyball]

I really dont understand what the heck... Can someone put any logic to this?

 

[spintops]

MG is really good at tearing it down for a rebuild. Still question his ability to add veteran talent to the roster and this move is head scratching

 

[knu]

GMMG is dead to me.

 

[Hodge]

This might be one of those trades that defines Grier's time in SJS...hope he got more than a middling prospect for a promising young player who is a pending RFA.

I like Zetterlund a lot, and we will definitely miss his speed and physicality, but a 20+20 winger isn't valuable enough a piece to define anyone's tenure. Graf and Chernyshov's emergence made him a bit expendable.

Ostapchuk is 4 years younger than Zetterlund - another sign that management acknowledges the window is still years away from opening.

 

[BobGoblinn]

I really dont understand what the heck... Can someone put any logic to this?

Maybe extension talks were really bad?

 

[themelkman]

Awful, awful, awful trade. This reeks of Grier/his team getting locked in on a prospect and severely overvaluing him. Some things never change.

Or, Grier has a mandate to slash costs next season and Zetterlund would have been too expensive.

I think we are like 20 mil below the cap floor, there is no cutting costs further than we are.

This is just pure talent evaluation failure

 

[StanleyCup2035]

Fire Mike Grier

 

[Juxtaposer]

Cool, I guess Grier really f***ing wants a 25% chance at McKenna and Dupont. Can't wait for Celebrini to request a trade this summer.

 

[OrrNumber4]

I think we are like 20 mil below the cap floor, there is no cutting costs further than we are.

This is just pure talent evaluation failure

Couture will count against the cap. My guess is Grier will go for players who have high cap hits relative to salary owed to them.

More picks, more prospects, more pain...

 

[StrawHatEklund]

Man, Zetterlund being dealt is making me feel meh about tomorrow’s game. Feels like half our roster just got overturned. Maybe a 1st would have made it sting a little less.

 

[themelkman]

Couture will count against the cap. My guess is Grier will go for players who have high cap hits relative to salary owed to them.

More picks, more prospects, more pain...

More breaking and no building, hard to ever get out of a rebuild this way

 

[Pavelski2112]

Maybe this is military grade copium, but I have a feeling Grier is saving space for significant off-season moves