Player Discussion: Dylan DeMelo

[Rheged]

Exactly, better chance he re-signs here than that 3rd becoming an NHL player. Gotta play the odds.

I've always really liked DeMelo, glad to see him a Jet for the time being and hopefully this takes us out of the Brendan Dillon sweepstakes.

I think we're good there

 

[surixon]

Seems the moves are starting to happen. Going to be interesting to see if it's yet another slow day on deadline day lol.

 

[KingBogo]

Incoming trade for Kreider

It’s been reported every single Canadian team is on his no trade list.

 

[Gabe Kupari]

I think we're good there

I THINK SO.

 

[surixon]

It’s been reported every single Canadian team is on his no trade list.

Great, he is absolutely not a need here.

 

[ICdave]

DeMelo conference call is done.

To listen click here.

 

[Rheged]

DeMelo the domino!

 

[LucianoBorsato]

It’s been reported every single Canadian team is on his no trade list.

Good. Personally, I don't want anymore trades with the Rangers.

 

[Rheged]

Feeling even better about this trade watching all these other guys go for higher picks haha.

 

[Skidooboy]

That's fair.

Looking back on my posts it seems I am being overly harsh. I'm not trying to say it's a horrible trade just that I don't like the mentality of trading for rentals in years where the only upside is sneaking into the playoffs. I do like the player and the value, and if we re-sign him it becomes a coup so it could work out great still and it's not a huge risk.

I also don't like the fact that we only have 4 picks now in the upcoming draft, when we are currently the worst we have been in 3 years.

What it looks like to me is that you want the real world to look like a video game.

1 it’s probably a weak draft class this year so the value of that 3rd is already low.

2. We need something on our D
Now just to stay competitive night in night out never mind playoffs no matter what happens there was always gonna be a cost.

3. We ate one of the youngest teams in the NHL and we have been getting younger every year. Is a third round maybe someday youngster, something we really must retain?

We have very little that I would be happy trading other than picks. You
Would prefer we loose a piece of The homegrown talent we’ve been very carefully cultivateing?

 

[robertocarlos]

Chevy - When you have $22 million in cap and spend $220k.

 

[surixon]

All the depth D on the move now. Looks like Chevy beat the market and got good value based on the other moves today.

 

[Positive]

I know nothing about this fellow. But, looking at the numbers it seems like he's an inexpensive, low-risk addition who is immediately better than at least 2 of our D. So hey, why not.

 

[robertocarlos]

In 5-7 years you can see how that 3rd round pick turned out.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

What it looks like to me is that you want the real world to look like a video game.

1 it’s probably a weak draft class this year so the value of that 3rd is already low.

2. We need something on our D
Now just to stay competitive night in night out never mind playoffs no matter what happens there was always gonna be a cost.

3. We ate one of the youngest teams in the NHL and we have been getting younger every year. Is a third round maybe someday youngster, something we really must retain?

We have very little that I would be happy trading other than picks. You
Would prefer we loose a piece of The homegrown talent we’ve been very carefully cultivateing?

I have no idea why you mentioned anything about video games.

No my preference was to not trade for rentals, I made that quite clear.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Overrated? DeMelo?

I didn't realize I posted in the jets.

The whole he should go for a 2nd when he's not very good.

However he's better than Scandella who just went for a 2nd and a conditional 4th, so this looks way better for the jets.

 

[DRW204]

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

With some of these wild prices maybe we can ship Kulikov and get a 3rd back

 

[Neuf]

Wow, this might be a great trade.

Not the usual fourth rounder for Morrow/Beaulieu, so expectations are high!

 

[LucianoBorsato]

Again, it's a process. We did our due diligence

 

[John Agar]

So Chevy makes another value trade...

He did well with Pionk…. so I am confident Chevy got this right....

Just needs to sign DeMelo before free agency...

HFSens board almost all positive on him... so I am optimistic about this...

 

[Aries56]

I don't know the player, but based on what others have said, he has a similar playing style to Hamonic.

If things work out this year, maybe he would be a cheaper, younger, top 4 RHD to pursue beyond this year.

 

[snowkiddin]

Like the move.

I’m thinking Chevy might not be done either.

Maybe he moves Kulikov for a 2nd or 3rd, too? As a pending UFA.

Wouldn’t that be kinda counterintuitive after this trade? This is a “buy” so why would we “sell” Kulikov?

 

[DRW204]

I don't know the player, but based on what others have said, he has a similar playing style to Hamonic.

If things work out this year, maybe he would be a cheaper, younger, top 4 RHD to pursue beyond this year.

possibly better than Hamonic at this point of their careers?

 

[Jet]

This is good value but ultimately I'm still not a fan of moving any draft picks for rentals when our team is as bad as it is. Maybe we get lucky and he re-signs but hard to count on that.

Our team is bad?

Our defense has too many 5,6,7's playing elevated roless and this addresses that somewhat now.

Our team isn't bad