Confirmed with Link: JJ Peterka Traded to Utah for Michael Kesselring and Josh Doan

[enthusiast]

It was staring us all right in the face:

Adams added another friend’s son

 

[kirby11]

The complete refusal to ever take picks in trades is insane

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

That’s… better than I expected.

I almost posted this exact trade…it was one of a few potential similar targets:

Cuylle + Sneider
McMann + Carlo
Doan + Kesserling

This was actually my least favorite but I really like that it makes us MUCH tougher to play against.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

This is beyond a shit deal.

I knew you would hate it, Im pretty meh, might need a drink tonight

 

[GellMann]

I think Kesselring is exactly what we need. Don't really like the overall value in a vacuum, but i wanted to go after that guy.

 

[Ehran]

Those trade details must be incorrect. I'm confident that Adams threw in a 2nd round pick as well.

 

[enthusiast]

I wonder what the holdup was

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

This franchise is a f***ing JOKE.

 

[Zman5778]

Josh Doan

June 2025 - In 2024-25, Doan made the team, but floundered (as noted below by Keith), struggling for offense and was sent to Tucson to find his game. He did just that, posting nearly a point-per-game in the AHL and getting called back up for good in January. His 17 points in those last 42

dobberprospects.com

In 2024-25, Doan made the team, but floundered (as noted below by Keith), struggling for offense and was sent to Tucson to find his game. He did just that, posting nearly a point-per-game in the AHL and getting called back up for good in January. His 17 points in those last 42 games were still a tad on the disappointing side, but he drove possession relative to quality of competition, was one of the stronger ones on the team in fact, and formed great chemistry on a shift disturber line alongside Lawson Crouse and Jack McBain. That kind of deployment would put a bit of a roof on his upside, but he’ll still provide secondary scoring.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

I think kesselring is a great fit but wow that’s bad value for what we were told was a huge ask

Ehh I’m not sure I disagree. We were about to get a much crappier return via offer sheet when you realize that Pegula would never pay the bonuses.

 

[DapperCam]

Is this the absurdly high value we’ve been hearing rumors about? That value stinks.

 

[Dingo44]

We could have swapped our 9 for 4 but we need to include the 9 with Byram in that trade.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Not awful, but definitely underwhelming

 

[Zman5778]

I almost posted this exact trade…it was one of a few potential similar targets:

Cuylle + Sneider
McMann + Carlo
Down + Kesserling

This was actually my least favorite but I really like that it makes us MUCH tougher to play against.

And apparently Doan's underlying metrics were sneaky good while playing with a couple of guys who aren't offensive dynamos.

If Doan hits.......he is exactly what we need more of.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

 

[Ace]

It’s certainly bad value on paper, but it tells me Kevyn listens to his analytics guys… so there’s that.

He listens to his puppet master who told him the 4.5 million total to re-sign these two players is better than the 7 to sign Peterka.

Thats who he listens to

 

[Jacob582]

I was looking at Puckpedia about 10 minutes ago, and the one name on Utah's list that I said out loud was Josh Doan.

 

[Ace]

I wonder what the holdup was

Waiting for Bill Armstrong to stop laughing

 

[jc17]

Kesselring better be worth it.

Yeah he's been getting hyped specifically for this role, we'll see if he is.

I really think peterka is going to have a productive career, and it's going to be tough to outperform whatever he does next

 

[enthusiast]

The pick swap dream is dead but other than my day getting darker from that, at least there’s a good player in there from Utah

 

[Schemp]

As a Utah fan, that hurts. Kesselring has one of the hardest slap shots in the league and I was expecting Doan to have a break out season this year, ~ 40 points.

 

[jc17]

Wait so they get a peterka extension and we really only have control over kesselring for 1 more year?

Do I have that right?

 

[Gabrielor]

I knew you would hate it, Im pretty meh, might need a drink tonight

You dont trade a top line winger whos 23, however flawed, for this. Especially when you allegedly had a high price.

 

[Jacob582]

Look on the bright side. We get to trade Doan next year when he's a RFA.

 

[CrazyWayne]

I wonder what the holdup was

I'm convinced the "contingency" was Adams told Utah that he wanted to sleep on it, Utah then leaked it