Proposal: Name The Best RHS Prospect Your Team Would Trade for Tobias Rieder

[rt]

This is just a fun little exercise.

Obviously not all teams are a good fit. Some teams don’t have a RHS (right handed shot) prospect valuable enough (that’s okay, just name the most valuable one you’d give up from your team.

Some teams have RHS (right handed shot) prospects that are too valuable (that’s okay, just name the most valuable one you’d be comfortable giving up for Rieder).

Opinions will vary, and that’s okay. Name your favorite team, and state who the best RHS prospect your team has, that you’d be comfortable trading for Tobias Rieder.

This prospect can be a center, a winger, or a defenseman. Please no goalies!

Arizona’s likely preferences would be RHC, RHD, and RHW in that order. Just for reference, it doesn’t really matter for this exercise.

List your team. List your prospect.

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[rt]

To get the ball rolling, I'll post an example.

The Coyotes have RHS prospects in Anthony DeAngelo, Kyle Wood, Nick Merkley, Henrik Samuelsson, Conor Garland, and Christian Fischer.

I probably would not trade DeAngelo or Fischer for Rieder.

I probably would trade Merkley or Samuelsson or Garland or Wood for him, though.

 

[deathtouchtrample]

Oskar Sundqvist?

 

[vipernsx]

Rangers already have a glut of forwards, Kegan Iverson or Calle Anderson are about all they could give up in the RHS prospect department, aka almost nothing.

 

[HoseEmDown]

Matthew Spencer

 

[TheGroceryStick]

J.J. Piccinich
Nikita Korostelev

 

[ManofSteel55]

He didn't want to sign for Edmonton before, so we wouldn't give up anything for him now. No sense in bringing in a guy who doesn't want to play for us.

 

[DraberlyakMcHallkins*]

Slepyshev, Marino, Platzer, Chase

not much for RH prospects in EDM

 

[rt]

Oskar Sundqvist?

Matthew Spencer

These two are interesting as potential role players.

 

[QcFlames12]

Rasmus Anderson

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

Austin Caroll
Hunter Smith
Linden Vey
Freddie Hamilton

Rasmus Anderson

Uh.. No.

 

[Some Other Flame]

Kenney Morrison, Hunter Smith, maybe Adam Fox. Coyotes can do better elsewhere most likely.

Rasmus Andersson would most definitely not be on the table. Because he'd have eaten it.

 

[SEALBound]

Oskar Sundqvist?

These two are interesting as potential role players.

Actually, a Sundqvist+ for Reider trade isn't the worse basis for a deal. My issue is, Penguins don't have many center prospects. Sure some of the wings have played center but Sundqvist is pretty much by himself when it comes to NHL ready centers for the Penguins.

Sundqvist is a big boy too, something else the Penguins lack at the moment.

On the other hand, I do believe Reider is worth more than Sundqvist even though wisdom from knowledgeable insiders tell us centers are more valuable than wings. With that, something like Sundqvist+2nd/3rd for Reider could be enticing but it also comes down to what Reider's contract demands are. Penguins have $1.1mil in space. So in order for anything to happen, Arizona would also have to take on a roster player.

Perhaps Fehr+Sunqvist for Reider+B prospect?

 

[StayAtHomeAv]

Avs

Mironov (left handed D, but plays right apparently)
Grimaldi
Beaudin

 

[GAGLine]

Rangers already have a glut of forwards, Kegan Iverson or Calle Anderson are about all they could give up in the RHS prospect department, aka almost nothing.

Iverson isn't a Rangers prospect anymore. We didn't offer him a contract.

 

[WannabeFinn]

probably the best right handed prospect I'd offer up from CBJ is Daniel Zaar

 

[LordNeverLose]

Probably would be Scott Mayfield, since Barzal Ho-Sang and Pulock are off the table.

 

[edguy]

Rieder+ for Colin White?

 

[The Nuge]

He didn't want to sign for Edmonton before, so we wouldn't give up anything for him now. No sense in bringing in a guy who doesn't want to play for us.

Basically. Ignoring everything, I'd trade Slepy for him, but at the end of the day, he's not the type of player I'd want around the team.

 

[Riptide]

Pittsburgh. I'd be pretty tempted to move Pouliot for him. PIT would have to move salary as well, so either in the same move, include Fehr or Kunitz.

Personally am still pretty high on Pouliot, but I also really like Reider, and if that's what it took, then I'd suck it up. Especially as it would have the added benefit of us moving Kunitz or Fehr (I'd hope it would be Kunitz).

 

[Episkey]

Dan O'Regan, Julius Bergman, or Michael Brodzinski from San Jose. I doubt any of them are worth Rieder, but we aren't trading Jeremy Roy or Kevin Labanc.

 

[BUX7PHX]

Arizona’s likely preferences would be RHC, RHD, and RHW in that order. Just for reference, it doesn’t really matter for this exercise.

Do you think RHD is as high on that list right now? Last year, I would say RHD is #1 priority, but now that Arizona has:

Traded for Wood
Locked up Murphy
Got Stone on a 1 year deal and may be able to keep him next year (sounded like he wants to stay, but who knows??)
Traded for DeAngelo
Drafted Stewart in 2016

Doesn't include Mayo in that context, but I feel like we made far greater strides there than say, RHW or RHC. Our RHW consist of:

Samuelsson (injured over past two years and skating will always be an issue)
Merkley (injured last year and coming back)
Garland (amazing, but size stacks against him)
Fischer

Fischer is the only one without any asterisks so far. Maybe I am putting a little more weight on injuries for the forwards and not enough on the amount of time required for the defensemen to develop. But I feel as if though the defensive changes through trades and draft makes the defense at least slightly more palatable.

 

[rt]

Actually, a Sundqvist+ for Reider trade isn't the worse basis for a deal. My issue is, Penguins don't have many center prospects. Sure some of the wings have played center but Sundqvist is pretty much by himself when it comes to NHL ready centers for the Penguins.

Sundqvist is a big boy too, something else the Penguins lack at the moment.

On the other hand, I do believe Reider is worth more than Sundqvist even though wisdom from knowledgeable insiders tell us centers are more valuable than wings. With that, something like Sundqvist+2nd/3rd for Reider could be enticing but it also comes down to what Reider's contract demands are. Penguins have $1.1mil in space. So in order for anything to happen, Arizona would also have to take on a roster player.

Perhaps Fehr+Sunqvist for Reider+B prospect?

Pittsburgh. I'd be pretty tempted to move Pouliot for him. PIT would have to move salary as well, so either in the same move, include Fehr or Kunitz.

Personally am still pretty high on Pouliot, but I also really like Reider, and if that's what it took, then I'd suck it up. Especially as it would have the added benefit of us moving Kunitz or Fehr (I'd hope it would be Kunitz).

These posts are intriguing.

Isn't Poiliot LD though? LHS?

 

[Alexander Edler]

Jasek
Neill

 

[Riptide]

These posts are intriguing.

Isn't Poiliot LD though? LHS?

Yes. However he spent most of his last year (perhaps more) in Portland playing the right side. And my understanding of the OP was that it was preferred, but not absolutely required.