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

[GellMann]

I just can't get that angry about this trade. JJP was fun and he could explode Briere-style but he was never that important to the team build to me

I wish the value was a bit better in our direction but i don't see this as any sort of disaster at all

 

[SundherDome]

I am giddy

 

[ValJamesDuex]

BREAKING: Also included in the trade is Kevin Adams old Jock Strap to Allen Walsh

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

We weren't winning with Peterka and we will probably win even less without Peterka.

Trying to find a silver lining with any of this.

We got guys who can win puck battles and punch other guys. When you refuse to draft that, it comes at a bigger cost. It was time to pay the piper.

 

[TheBarnIsElectric]

I am happy.

 

[CrazyWayne]

That Byram trade better be a blockbuster.

Vancouver 2nd round pick + the free agent rights to Brock boser

"We gambled to sign him long term, but the taxes were not to his liking"

 

[pigpen65]

Thank god they fired Regier

 

[ctmagic]

Would you guys have been happier with a deal like Rossi and Ohgren over this one?

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

I am giddy

I think history will look back kindly on this deal.

 

[DapperCam]

Doan could replace 20ish by himself, given decent linemates.

I’m not really seeing that. He’s the same age as Peterka and hasn’t stuck in the NHL for a full season. It isn’t easy to score 20 goals in the NHL, and he won’t be getting top 6 minutes. He was on pace for 11 goals last year, and 10-15 goals feels about right.

 

[Sabre Dance]

Top 6 forward for a bottom pairing D we hope can play tougher min.

This will fail. The Sabres are always chasing their tails.

This guy is not a top 4 D and I hope they don’t try and sell him as one.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Would you guys have been happier with a deal like Rossi and Ohgren over this one?

No. Top need for half a decade has been RHD.

 

[sabremike]

That’s what I’ve been saying was happening all along. Terry won’t pay the bonuses in an offer sheet so he wouldn’t have matched. It was this or a few picks via offer sheet return.

I am totally fine with this return, but I understand the folks who are pissed off. Something like this should have been done two years ago.

Years back when PJB returned Islanders fans went around Nassau Coliseum and put pictures of John Tavares in every urinal in the place.

Just saying...

 

[Ace]

Jarmo just moved his house further away

 

[MOGlLNY]

With an extension? WITH AN EXTENSION? GTFOH. That was the best trade they could get for Peterka?

Why would you think it wouldn’t come with an extension nobody would move for him without that stipulation lmao

 

[enthusiast]

Surely they’re saving all this money for a big acquisition…perhaps a winger in free agency…

 

[Ace]

No. Top need for half a decade has been RHD.

They could have solved that a million ways without moving their best trade asset for someone’s third pair guy

 

[MOGlLNY]

That’s what I’ve been saying was happening all along. Terry won’t pay the bonuses in an offer sheet so he wouldn’t have matched. It was this or a few picks via offer sheet return.

I am totally fine with this return, but I understand the folks who are pissed off. Something like this should have been done two years ago.

It’s whelming

 

[Ace]

Surely they’re saving all this money for a big acquisition…perhaps a winger in free agency…

Jarmo and Staal are the acquisitions

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Years back when PJB returned Islanders fans went around Nassau Coliseum and put pictures of John Tavares in every urinal in the place.

Just saying...

I don’t think fans care enough about JJ to do that but might be cathartic.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Good news is they won’t try to shoehorn the Byram deal for a RD now. Gotta extract as much value as possible from it

 

[GellMann]

Kesselring is going to be our best RHD in a long time btw

 

[TheBarnIsElectric]

The McLeod trade was also widely ridiculed. Feel like this is another like that. Time will tell.

Hopefully more coming.

 

[enthusiast]

Jarmo and Staal are the acquisitions

You’ll be eating crow when Mitch gets the most expensive deal in league history

 

[slip]

It is what it is. A middling RD with zero PK ability (so far), a powerish forward still struggling to find his game, for a one dimensional offensive winger.

And 5-6 million in cost savings next year for the big guy. Lifestyle secured!