Confirmed Trade: [TBL/SEA/DET] Y. Gourde (75% ret.), O. Bjorkstrand, K. Aucoin, 2026 5th to TBL; M. Eyssimont, 2026 1st, 2027 1st, 2025 2nd to SEA; 2025 4th to DET

[Quackenator]

I’ll take it!

 

[majormajor]

You know Björkstrand was not the main piece,eh?

He absolutely was.

Premier checking forward, very consistent scorer on any line. He's a huge addition for at least two playoff runs. That's where most of the value was.

 

[JKG33]

Way too much. Bjorkstrand is ok but nothing special. This is a depth move with the same cost as getting a difference maker.

Yup. It depends on which player the 1st+2nd was for. If it's for Bjorkstrand as others have loved to point out.. yikes. Probably could've had a rental Boeser for that, and then go out and sign one of the half dozen Bjorkstrand comparables that hit UFA every year for $6m or less.

 

[TotalHomer]

Clearly you don't understand how much of a difference depth can make when you have none.

This makes TB a lot better.

We paid a third rounder for Tarasenko last year lol

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

Way too much. Bjorkstrand is ok but nothing special. This is a depth move with the same cost as getting a difference maker.

This is certainly a take, just not a good one.

But I understand why Panthers fans would hope this to be true

 

[Rebels57]

Hell of a haul by Seattle

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Tampa is the favorite to come out of the East after these moves, their forward depth is pretty ridiculous now when you consider they got Nick Paul and Gourde on their 3rd line, two guys who are more than capable of playing in your top 6.

Not to mention how stacked their top-6 is, the defense looks good and Vasi has returned to form

Edit: Shoutout to the morons who'll just blindly look at their raw numbers and think Gourde/Bjork are not good players lmfao, please keep drooling on your keyboards.

 

[majormajor]

Unless there's another move up JBB's sleeve (which would require sheer wizardry), I would imagine one of these two will wind up 2RW. Bjork sounds like a less offensive Hagel.

Personally I would strongly consider having Gourde and Bjorkstrand together. They were dominant together throughout the 2022 run. Great chemistry, they read off each other perfectly on the forecheck. They were nominally the third line in Seattle then but played the most minutes and were the engine for the team.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Time for somebody to gouge Toronto.

 

[King Woodballs]

Tampa better win soon. They are going I’ll look like the penguins in two years.

 

[Phrasing]

Nice for Seattle

 

[Frank Drebin]

Do they have any futures left to trade?

2028 first rounder

 

[Some Other Flame]

Brisebois is either an insane genius or just insane

 

[StlBigFly]

Nice to see trades one team will absolutely love right now and the other group has to wait a bit, but what a haul. Nice deal.

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

Brisebois is either an insane genius or just insane

Or both

 

[creg]

Tampa rebuild will suck but we'll have 2 cups to show for it, a lot better than some of the other teams having to rebuild

 

[majormajor]

Yeah no point in engaging with that poster. He has some weird agenda and obviously has only ever looked at a Seattle Scoresheet and never watched him play.

I don't think he's even thinking about the scoresheet. Bjorkstrand scores very consistently, players like that are worth assets, even before adding the value of his high end forechecking.

I think that poster saw the price Seattle paid for Bjorkstrand (a cap crunch steal) and assumed there were some significant warts on the player.

 

[Jee]

is JBB f***ing high??

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Tampa better win soon. They are going I’ll look like the penguins in two years.

Tampa and the Penguins have 4 Cups between them in the last decade to justify all their selling of futures.

It wont make it any easier when the time comes, but it's hard to argue against it.

The difference is, Pittsburgh continued to do it well outside their competitive window. Tampa is still in theirs.

 

[DingDongCharlie]

Anyone not seeing how good and important this is for Tampa is out to lunch.

Tampa already has their big guns up front 1-5 spots in Kucherov, Point, Guentzel, Hagel and Cirelli. Being able support them with the 6-9 spots with Paul, Bjorkstrand, Gourde and fill in the blank gives the team soo many options. Only thing Tampa was missing was depth up front as they were top heavy. Now they have the depth and more secondary scoring.

Same people who’d complain about this are probably the same ones that complained when Tampa went after Goodrow and Coleman.

 

[DFC]

You know Björkstrand was not the main piece,eh?

Lol okay....

 

[The Shadow]

Time for somebody to gouge Toronto.

Please no Those days are hopefully over

 

[SvenHull]

We paid a third rounder for Tarasenko last year lol

That worked out real well for you, 6 whole goals in 19 games!

 

[WarriorofTime]

If Tampa doesn't make the Cup Finals this year, this one could cause some pain.

 

[majormajor]

If he's so great, Columbus would've dumped cap a different way or

It was universally panned by Jackets fans immediately as the wrong player to move. Widely considered one of Jarmo's most monumental blunders.

other teams would've stepped up with a better offer.

Every club was capped out. You have to remember summer 2022 - after the signings, every team that was willing to spend was hard up against the cap, except for Seattle.