Pettersson is better than Zadorov and will come at a cheaper hit if the Penguins retain.
If not, then go find another Pettersson for a 3rd and a 5th if that's all you want to spend.
CBJ want a 1st for Provorov. I would suggest he and Pettersson at the top rental dmen available so Pettersson's value should be similar-ish to that.
Yeah. Pettersson is gonna cost a lot more than what was offered there. He's clearly among the top few "rental" defencemen potentially available. I think he's also seen as clearly better than Zadorov was when the Canucks acquired him on the cheap. I think they're probably conflating what Zaddy was for the Canucks and what he got on the open market in the Summer for it, with what his "value" was at the time of that trade. It was also a far more generous trade market around last year's deadline, with a lot more quality potentially available.
I'd have Pettersson behind Provorov in value, but not by nearly as much as that poster did.
Trent Frederic for Hoglander? Fills your 3C need, and a player Tochett would love. Another Bruin too, which should fit in well in the room.
Frederic has played mostly LW for Boston (due to Bergeron, Krejci, Coyle being down the middle), but is a career center and played center for Boston down the stretch and in the playoffs last year. Monty wanted him to play there this year but they moved Zacha back to C which meant Zacha, Lindholm, Coyle down the middle.
I suggested this deal on the Bruins board a couple days ago, citing that Hoglander could help inject some skill into Boston's middle6, but Bruins fans didn't like it.
This is a kind of interesting idea. Frederic being a UFA likely looking for a "cash in" deal this summer is a bit of a stumbling block though. I'm also not totally sure i like him as a Center rather than as a Winger, where it becomes a bit of a lateral move. But i do like him, and think he'd potentially be a real "Tocchet player".
If they confidently think they could get him signed to a
less than Hoglander extension, i'd think about it for sure. But i'm not sure that's going to be the case.
From Boston's end though, i'm not sure you'd get what you're expecting in Hoglander tbh. He's "skilled", but in a very specific little niche. He doesn't see the ice well, pretty poor playmaker, constantly out of sync with linemates...but he's dirty darting quick in short areas around the net and has kind of filthy hands "in a phone booth" and finish around the net. But that's mostly the extent of his "skill".
At this point, personally, I’m against trading him as we’re finally shaping up to have a functional core where Sillinger becomes a key piece in the bottom 6.
At the same time I know many CBJ fans are interested in Hoglander, so some deal might be made, perhaps with a pick and prospect package.
I would definitely not do that trade, as we seem to be in a good shape with left handed wingers.
Probably irrelevant to this point, as he's still going to be a LH shooter no matter what, but Hoglander has shown that he can play either wing more or less equally effectively. Especially since defensively, he seems equally weak at the things where handedness matters, whichever wing he plays on.
