For Carolina...
In:
Vinnie Trocheck
Sami Vatanen
Brady Skjei
Joey Keane
Out:
Julien Gauthier
Erik Haula
Chase Priskie
Freddy Claesson
Lucas Wallmark
Eetu Luostarinen
Janne Kuokkanen
1st round 2020
3rd/4th round 2020
Looks like turning a bunch of nickels into a couple of dimes. They got forced into making some trades on D they probably didn’t want to make, but their prospect pool is still quite strong, and they still have 4 picks in the top 3 rounds of this year’s draft, including a 1st rounder. They paid a steep price to stay in the fight, but I’m not sure they shouldn’t have gone the extra step to grab Lehner too. It would have made a lot of sense.
It seems sort of like bad asset management on their part, but they culled their large prospect pool a bit which will let the best guys play more, and they have managed their assets so well in the past that even paying a huge price didn’t really hurt them that much. On the flip side, we feel every prospect/pick trade pretty severely at this point, because we’re relatively thin. Not a judgment thing, we’re two teams in different places, but it’s just interesting to see how different our two teams are.