Miseljevic was among the league’s top 10 scorers for most of the first half of the season last year. That’s not nuthin.
If he has a start like that again this year, with the reported lack of OA RWers who would be made available, a team might take a chance on him and give up a decent return at the deadline. 2 x 3rd’s maybe? 2nd & 3rd maybe? 3rd, 4th & 5th maybe?
Now, admittedly, he won’t have near the supporting cast this year that he had last year. He was a good “third” piece on the first line for much of the first half of the season. His numbers dipped when he got shuffled off the first line. If I was a betting man, you might see his production fall somewhere between last year’s first half and his second half. Under a point a game pace? (20 goals 55 points?)
If that is the case, I wouldn’t hold my breath getting significant return for him.
For me, I think it’s obvious we go with an OA goalie. After that, Swick needs to be traded. He’d be the OA who would bring us the greatest return. After that, with us moving out Andonovski, we may need to swap out one of Miseljevic or Pugliese for an OA D. I’d prefer to move Miseljevic out because of what Pugliese brings.
I think we need to bring in one if not two veteran D with our very young D corps. Not a lot of games under the belts of our returnees on the back end. (166 total OHL games played between Reid, Campbell, Dirracolo, MacNiel). Likely an OA and an 05 - both on the very cheap.
