OHL Trade Thread 2024-25

[donjohnson]

I would be willing to wager my game used autographed Beckett Sennecke jersey that there’s ZERO chance of Saginaw trading Misa this year. None whatsoever.

Misa will be a top five pick - - likely a top three pick - - in the upcoming NHL draft.

I’m surprised that people here don’t seem to comprehend the financial significance this has for CHL teams. Especially for teams like Saginaw with low gate receipts because of their low attendance numbers.

The time to trade Misa would be next year as a 19yr old as he’ll almost assuredly be returning after his NHL training camp ends.

People in Saginaw understand the significance which is why I said we want him to be drafted as a member of the Spirit. We already market the heck out of him here so it's hard to do more but hearing his name called as potentially the highest draft pick ever (after Zayne last year) will be special for us.

With regard to attendance, we're actually pretty consistent...with a stacked team last year we were around 3650 and in a low year we're down around 3250. We also now have a bunch of suites that were created for the Memorial Cup that offset or increase the fluctuations in attendance. We're never going to get 5000 per game...we'll sell out a handful of games per year and we'll have 1500 for weekday games. A year by year average of 3500 per game is just about right for our market and size. We also battle against all levels of football for the first half of the year...people have their priorities.