Confirmed with Link: Artturi Lehkonen to Avs for Justin Barron and 2024 2nd

[BobRossColton]

Habs have too many NHLers right now, they have to healthy scratch a different dman and a forward every game.

Would any of our prospects get Amia or Evans?

 

[Pokecheque]

How do we help them out with this?

You don't really, since most of the players they're trying to get rid of (Anderson, Dvorak) are ones the Avs either can't afford or don't want.

MAYBE you get Monahan as a rental with retention but I think he'd spontaneously combust the moment he entered Ball Arena.

 

[niwotsblessing]

Someone mentioned this before, but Lehky is what we wanted JTC to be. Defensively responsible, jack of all trades, fits in nicely wherever you need him.

Lehkonen is what JTC could be if JTC had even a modicum of game-to-game GAF.

 

[Pokecheque]

Lehkonen is what JTC could be if JTC had even a modicum of game-to-game GAF.

Let’s not go that far. Lehkonen is one of the smartest players on the team and has a better shot. He’s just a better player. It’s not just effort level.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

You don't really, since most of the players they're trying to get rid of (Anderson, Dvorak) are ones the Avs either can't afford or don't want.

MAYBE you get Monahan as a rental with retention but I think he'd spontaneously combust the moment he entered Ball Arena.

If the stars align Monahan could have a Derrick Brassard like impact at the deadline.

 

[Balthazar]

If the stars align Monahan could have a Derrick Brassard like impact at the deadline.

In all seriousness Monahan is so good this year that Montreal may end up re-upping him and that wasn't in their plan at all.

 

[John Mandalorian]

In all seriousness Monahan is so good this year that Montreal may end up re-upping him and that wasn't in their plan at all.

Some guys do better in losing environments when expectations are low and there's less pressure.

Matt Murton was a baseball player for the Cubs who hit like .320 and .290 something his first two years with the Cubs. But it was a soft .300 average. Then when the Cubs started winning, his averaged started to decline.

 

[Avs_19]

In the reg season and playoffs with the Avs: 57 GP, 21 G, 20 A, 41 P.

A cool 30 goals and 59 points pace over 82 games while also bringing all of the other very valuable things that don't show up in the boxscore. I always knew he was good and the analytics suggested he was even better than I thought but he has even surpassed all of that.

 

[Balthazar]

Some guys do better in losing environments when expectations are low and there's less pressure.

It's more about getting the surgery he needed

 

[John Mandalorian]

It's more about getting the surgery he needed

Which hip or which wrist?

 

[niwotsblessing]

Let’s not go that far. Lehkonen is one of the smartest players on the team and has a better shot. He’s just a better player. It’s not just effort level.

That's fair.

 

[Snowsii]

I can register points in the NHL if I was playing with Rants and Mack. I can barely register points in beer league ice hockey.

Dont think so.. You're saying, that you are better than Puljujärvi? Who doesnt seem to score with MacDavid and Draisatle...

 

[MonsterMack]

Dont think so.. You're saying, that you are better than Puljujärvi? Who doesnt seem to score with MacDavid and Draisatle...

Gonna go ahead and guess that English isn't your first language (no shame there at all). His post was a joke

 

[Snowsii]

Gonna go ahead and guess that English isn't your first language (no shame there at all). His post was a joke

I read between the lines and saw that
(And you're right)

Sadly, same thing cant be said about Puljujärvi ;P

 

[Garavar]

Dont think so.. You're saying, that you are better than Puljujärvi? Who doesnt seem to score with MacDavid and Draisatle...

I also said points not goals. I could touch the puck get creamed and Mac/Rants can pick it up skate with it and score. That's an assist right there. I've gotten a ton of those in my beer league games.

 

[Chiarelli]

Don’t kid yourself if anyone on this site stepped on nhl ice for a second you’d never walk again in your life. I don’t care how cool you look in beer league

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

My beer league team routinely wins scrimmages against NHL teams

 

[Pokecheque]

Some guys do better in losing environments when expectations are low and there's less pressure.

Matt Murton was a baseball player for the Cubs who hit like .320 and .290 something his first two years with the Cubs. But it was a soft .300 average. Then when the Cubs started winning, his averaged started to decline.

In hockey we call that being Stempniak’d. Crazy how good he was for the terrible Blues but the moment the Leafs traded Steen (who emerged as quite the talent afterward) for him he became quite ordinary.

That said, there is no question of talent when it comes to Monahan. In his prime he was an elite top line center. The gigantic question is whether or not he can stay healthy.

 

[Snowsii]

I also said points not goals. I could touch the puck get creamed and Mac/Rants can pick it up skate with it and score. That's an assist right there. I've gotten a ton of those in my beer league games.

My post was also somekind critism against Puljujärvi

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

My beer league team routinely wins scrimmages against NHL teams

Just because you guys play in a 5000 person school arena doesn't mean the Coyotes are a beer league team.

 

[Garavar]

Don’t kid yourself if anyone on this site stepped on nhl ice for a second you’d never walk again in your life. I don’t care how cool you look in beer league

Ive skated in over 500 NHL games in my life and I can still walk. Granted it was during TV timeouts shoveling snow but still I've skated in those games.

 

[EXTRAS]

Wonder how rodrigues would look on a line with Mac. I feel like he is a guy who could put up some numbers similar to lehkonen.

 

[jonlin]

Time to re-visit this thread after Lehky`s 1st hat-trick. After this trade Lehkonen on Avs has:

150gp 56g 57a 113p playoffs 38gp 17g 14a 31p

This while providing good 200ft play. He is like a swiss knife, can be used in any situation. This trade was pretty lopsided.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

This is such a low key unbelievable trade. Lehkonen is just perfect team player. His contract is a steal too what he provides.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

A Lehkonen's a Lehkonen, but that 2nd round pick could've been anything. It could've even been a Lehkonen!