If true, zero chance we get anything from this trade. Don’t care though. Addition by subtraction as they gain a roster spot. Whether it be Leddy’s return or a call up it’s a net positive. Peru should have been traded 2 years ago. Zero value now.
Confirmed with Link: Perunovich traded for 2026 conditional 5th to Islanders
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Do we get a lesser pick, or do we get nothing if he doesn't play 20? With like 34 games left, and with Perunovich made of glass - and also sucking- that condition doesn't bode well for us.
The condition definitely makes it sound like we put the word out to the other GMs that he was going on waivers. There were a few bites, the Islanders knew someone ahead of them in the claim queue was putting in a claim, so they sweetened the pot just enough to beat “losing him for nothing.”
A minor but important lesson here: don’t draft double-overagers in the second round.
A minor but important lesson here: don’t draft double-overagers in the second round.
Robb_K
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The difference between Perunovich and Calle Rosen is that Rosen can defend somewhat at The NHL level, while Perunovich is almost worthless on defence at that level, while his contribution to the team's offence is not nearly enough to make up for his defensive deficiencies. Rosen's offensive skills at The NHL level are also much more effective than Perunovich's. What bothers me is that Perunovich was such a high pick originally, probably based on how his offensive skills looked so promising at the low level, and assumed they would continue to develop all the way into The NHL. And now, for all that high draft choice investment, we get back only a very low round draft choice that might disappear or become a round lower IF he doesn't reach certain statistic levels or games played threshholds. This especially hurts when The Blues have such a dearth of quality young defencemen ready to play now.
He’s not really “young” though, he’s 26. By any metric he isn’t even a prospect anymore. By this point in most people’s careers, you are what you are.
Scotty P is a small offensive dman who needs to be sheltered a lot. He’s a playmaker who isn’t great at forechecking to gain possession, or resisting pressure from opposing forecheckers to maintain it. Which makes it hard to make plays. He can QB a power play probably, but he can’t be trusted to keep the puck in when there’s a scrum (or even minor pressure) at the blue line. He can’t do the little things that would enable his undeniable skills to translate at this level.
If he was more than that he would have shown it by now, even accounting for the injuries and the very late age he left college hockey. He’s outlasted two coaches here, and had nothing but runway to prove himself and take someone’s job. He hasn’t, and that very well may be because he just can’t.
Robb_K
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That's all very obvious. I'm just disappointed that they gave up such a high draft choice for him, and lost most of its value based on hoping he'd develop into something that would be a longshot, given his physical restrictions.
PocketNines
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It was always troubling that Armstrong ever conceived of top-level hockey competition where Scott Perunovich needed to be part of it.
That said, PLEEEEEASE give the Isles a prove-it bump Scott, at least you could do one thing for this franchise that bent over backwards to keep your dreams alive, and that's help the Isles draft worse than us this year. Score 5 goals down the stretch 11 assists and help them win games
That said, PLEEEEEASE give the Isles a prove-it bump Scott, at least you could do one thing for this franchise that bent over backwards to keep your dreams alive, and that's help the Isles draft worse than us this year. Score 5 goals down the stretch 11 assists and help them win games
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That's probably exactly what happened.
Or the lesson could be, trade your 2nd round draft pick before the league wises up to how bad he is, especially when you've already got a guy who plays the exact same role locked up long term.
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perunovich got a secondary assist last night and New York fans/media are acting like he is the second coming of Bobby Orr. Guess they missed his pass to MacKinnon (i think) that resulted in a point blank shot on goal.
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I was always a big fan of Perunovich, I remember watching him at a Blues prospect game before he played in the NHL and thought he looked super talented. Then his first pro season he torchers the AHL with 23 points in 17 games, gets called up by the Blues and plays some games then gets injured, comes back for the Blues in the ‘22 playoffs where he had 4 points in 7 games. I’m thinking damn they might have something with him, he’s fun to watch.
Then he missed an entire season with injury. Then last year he was mediocre to awful with an occasional flash of brilliance. Then this year he finally scored his first NHL goal and had some confidence going and looked really good for a stretch of games. Then made some mistakes got scratched and then got traded. Frustrating lol. I really wanted to see a Peru redemption arc happen dammit and it never did, oh well.
Drove me crazy that he wouldn’t shoot more like the coaches wanted, took the coaches forever to get Thomas to shoot more too. I honestly think he would make a great playmaking winger playing forward instead of defense. He’s too small to play defense at the NHL level but I hope he figures it out.
Then he missed an entire season with injury. Then last year he was mediocre to awful with an occasional flash of brilliance. Then this year he finally scored his first NHL goal and had some confidence going and looked really good for a stretch of games. Then made some mistakes got scratched and then got traded. Frustrating lol. I really wanted to see a Peru redemption arc happen dammit and it never did, oh well.
Drove me crazy that he wouldn’t shoot more like the coaches wanted, took the coaches forever to get Thomas to shoot more too. I honestly think he would make a great playmaking winger playing forward instead of defense. He’s too small to play defense at the NHL level but I hope he figures it out.
