Confirmed with Link: Marat Khusnutdinov and Jakub Lauko traded to BOS for Justin Brazeau

[Sota Popinski]

Now first rounders don't count, do you cherry pick for a living? That is all that I see.

If you count first rounders, it's gonna be skewed towards teams constantly picking at the top of the draft. Wow, Edmonton sure nailed their first rounders when they picked in the top ten off a decade straight!

 

[BagHead]

If you count first rounders, it's gonna be skewed towards teams constantly picking at the top of the draft. Wow, Edmonton sure nailed their first rounders when they picked in the top ten off a decade straight!

We could solve this issue by providing a weighting to ranges of draft picks. It isn't necessary to remove them entirely when simply discounting them by some percentage weighting would tell a more complete and accurate tale. I don't currently care enough to do this myself, but if you guys really want to find out how good the Wild are at drafting vs. other teams, that'd be the way to go about it.

Maybe something like giving rounds 3-7 full weight (x1), while discounting the 1st and 2nd round to some degree. Something like 1-3 overall at x0.25, 4-10 at 0.35, 11-17 at 0.50, 18-32 at 0.7, and 2nd rounders at 0.85 (these are just wild guesses at weightings to make it clear what I mean, they are not the numbers that should actually be used).

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Let's talk about the players involved in the trades?

 

[f7ben]

So we get this new plug and we are going to attempt to tailor a role for him based on his limited skill set instead of trying to force his round peg into square hole like we do with every other player????

Make very little sense.

 

[north21]

If you count first rounders, it's gonna be skewed towards teams constantly picking at the top of the draft. Wow, Edmonton sure nailed their first rounders when they picked in the top ten off a decade straight!

For sure but you can still find top talent who exceed their draft position. Sometimes it's luck when say Boldy falls into our lap but sometimes you make a great pick like Burns or Brodin.

 

[Spurgeon]

I do wonder if Khus was pissy about being sent down and that ticked Guerin off. Seems odd to me to send him down to the AHL and tell the media it was purely for cap reasons before trading him away.

If we're only including the NHL, I'll take that bet

I'll set a reminder for April 2027. Hopefully we're still both around.

I still owe GuerinUp $20 for a bet we made about something regarding the Wild defense, but he hasn't posted for nearly 3 years now.

 

[north21]

I do wonder if Khus was pissy about being sent down and that ticked Guerin off. Seems odd to me to send him down to the AHL and tell the media it was purely for cap reasons before trading him away.

This does seem to happen, Talbot got moved pretty fast but that worked out good. We signed Greenway and traded him not that long aafter. Probably another one I am forgetting.

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

This does seem to happen, Talbot got moved pretty fast but that worked out good. We signed Greenway and traded him not that long aafter. Probably another one I am forgetting.

McBain. Addison

 

[north21]

I want to say McBain was a Sr and didn't want to sign here so we traded his rights. Addison seemed more like a decision based on poor nhl play.

 

[TaLoN]

McBain. Addison

Addison was just terrible at hockey
McBain didn't want to play here because he thought there was too many players in his way at center

 

[AKL]

McBain didn't want to play here because he thought there was too many players in his way at center

Which shows really low hockey IQ so we didn't want him anyway

 

[f7ben]

Which shows really low hockey IQ so we didn't want him anyway

Or he had absolutely no faith in his own ability to crack into an org with generationally bad center depth. Which also precludes us from wanting him here.