Confirmed Trade: [BOS/MIN] Vinni Lettieri and 2024 4th (110OA) for Jakub Lauko and 2024 4th (122OA)
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The Hockey Tonk Man
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SanDogBrewin
Righteous bucks!
Happy Lauko found a new home. Bs need to replenish there D prospect pool. Works out both ways. Wild fans will like Laukos energy. Likes to get under the other teams skin.
I was expecting more from Lauko this season and was disappointed - his puck skills seemed worse than the previous year. But he started to pick it up the energy and hitting side of his game as the season went on and you can see he has potential to be a good, speedy 4th line checker who can get under the opposition's skin and cause some chaos around the walls and net. He wasn't going to get a shot at playing a full season here in Boston, not when there's better players in the bottom 6 blocking him from getting a shot. I hope he gets time in Minnesota. Good luck, Lauko!
wintersej
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I mean the Bruins have the most regular season wins and 5th most playoff wins since Sweeney got the job.
Dr Danglefest
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I don’t get why anyone is upset about this trade…
Lauko can’t be sent down without hitting Waiver and would have been a part of a logjam on the 4th.
Vinny L won’t even make the team, he’s just depth, it was about the pick swap
To elaborate:
Beecher, Kastelic, Boqvist, Brazeau, Merkulov in mix on 4th line
Frederic, Geekie, Poitras, Lysell, offensively minded FA in the mix for 3rd line
Pasta, Marchand, Coyle, Zacha and atleast have FA add plus one of those guys like Geekie can slide up to form top 6
TLDR - not a big loss
Lauko can’t be sent down without hitting Waiver and would have been a part of a logjam on the 4th.
Vinny L won’t even make the team, he’s just depth, it was about the pick swap
To elaborate:
Beecher, Kastelic, Boqvist, Brazeau, Merkulov in mix on 4th line
Frederic, Geekie, Poitras, Lysell, offensively minded FA in the mix for 3rd line
Pasta, Marchand, Coyle, Zacha and atleast have FA add plus one of those guys like Geekie can slide up to form top 6
TLDR - not a big loss
Let's face it, this isn't an earthshaking move, just a slight win for MN because they are lacking grinders in their system. Trouble with Lettieri is that he was always a big time point producer at lower levels of hockey, but simply wasn't able to bring that with him into the NHL. Not big enough, fast enough, or mean enough to transition into a grinder.
Trading Duhaime and Dewar made no sense to me, because they had nothing to replace them. It's like they were blamed for the crappy seasons M. Johansson, Folignoo, and Freddy Gaudreau had.
wintersej
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Yeah agree it’s a W for MN. Just trying to temper expectations for a guy the Bruins healthy scratched a bunch in the playoffs and was likely going to lost on waivers.
dredeye
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I know how crazy it sounds because of especially that historic season but aside from last year. I don’t think he’s been good. I’m puzzled how we have the fifth most playoff wins. We don’t miss the playoffs but we also don’t go deep.
No, they were FAs at the end of the season and Minnesota wasn't going to re-sign them with the amount of cap space they did have.
