honestly I'm disappointed in the trade as I still have hope for Jarnkrok, and not really interested in trading for a 33 year old UFA center, I understand that a big part of making this trade was to try to preserve the playoff streak with Datsyuk and Zetterberg out, but honestly I feel like this is probably a good season for having the streak end without the fanbase going crazy after, as I feel like most would be forgiving and understanding considering we're essentially going about 30 games with both D and Z out, and looking like the last 22 games after the olympic break without them for the much needed playoff push.
However, if you think about it from our up and coming prospect pool, someone had to get moved,
For the next 3 seasons we still got
Datsyuk
Zetterberg
Franzen
Weiss
who are likely to be top 6-9 players still on the lineup, and now it looks like we will be adding Nyquist to that list, with a bunch of other promising young players in Jurco, Sheahan. Plus we got a bunch of other promising top 6-9 wingers in Mantha and Pulkkinen coming up. My feeling is probably with how much better Sheahan has been than they anticipated, They probably see a combination of D/Z and Weiss/Sheahan as the top 3 centers, and felt that it would be hard for Jarnkrok to fit in, and with him possibly forcing their hand with wanting to be called up thought he would be a good chip to trade and keep space for the other promising wingers to have room on the club in the next year or 2.
The thing I'm sad about most is that Sheahan appears way better in the NHL than the AHL, and what's not to say that the same could be said for Jarnkrok, who overall now seems to having a better AHL season than Sheahan, so I would have liked to have hoped both Jarnkrok and Sheahan could have been 2nd/3rd line centers for this club, and if we were going to have moved him, I would have preferred it to be a for a top 4 dman or someone a bit younger than Legwand. My only hope that will make me feel much better about this move in the offseason is if we do end up resigning Legwand that it means we will actively try and trade Weiss. If their really committed to Andersson and Helm still being bottom line centers, we don't need D/Z/Legwand/Sheahan/Weiss fighting for the other 3 center spots and could ideally just shift one of D/Z permanently to the wing with their age