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

[DistantThunderRep]

I love the aggressiveness of jbb. So many gms are afraid of big moves.

It always comes off as a dude who has full confidence from ownership and he knows he has the trust from the franchise.

 

[eojsmada]

Winners win, and losers collect picks and pray they become something.

Seems like a fair trade for both teams really.

I was trying to be funny (and failing). No reason for him to hold on to his picks if he still wants to extend his window for winning a Cup.

 

[Sky04]

Tampa has a robust player development system so I can see they dont value picks all that much.

Raddysh - their second highest scoring defensemen was undrafted. They were able to sign Guentzel because they are a top organization. Their core guys are locked up long term. When keeping Stammer and Sergachev was no longer possible,. they replaced one with a better player and traded the other one for a recent top 10 pick.

Sergachev trade was master class, allowed McDonagh to be brought back, get Moser who's a top 4 defenseman and get a top-10 pick in Geekie. Tampa is night and day different than last year.

 

[boltsfan86]

TB didn't even give up as much as they did for Hagel, who had a shoddier track record than Bjorkstrand when they first got him. Just sayin

 

[JKG33]

The funny thing here is that you actually think Bjorkstrand was a throw in and Gourde was the center piece. Either way, you are happy. And right. So congratulations!

Gourde was absolutely the centrepiece

 

[DFC]

You're obviously confused about Bjorkstrand.

He's never had to rehab his value, he's consistently been an excellent player - a guy who scores on any line (which makes him more valuable) and makes any line better. One of the best forecheckers in the league actually. He and Gourde together are going to be territorially dominant as a third line, if Tampa uses them that way.

He was traded from Columbus in the peak of the league's cap crunch, after teams were fully spent, in a panic move to clear salary after the Jackets unexpectedly landed Gaudreau. It was an incredible steal, and many people pointed it out at the time.

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.

 

[SI90]

Imagine what Noah Dobson would get in this economy... I'm getting a little giddy thinking about it. But surely they won't move him...

I wouldn’t Trade Dobson.

 

[le_sean]

Didn’t think Gourde had value. But Bjorkstrand is great.

Kind of surprised they gave up Eyssimont. Must be for the salaries? I like him as a 4th liner.

 

[BLNY]

Sorry Eyssimont!

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Tampa Bay did this for Hagel and got called stupid, now he's a 2 way monster who's making Team Canada rosters. Bjorkstrand will fit there like a glove and no draft pick is gonna help their older core of Hedman/Kucherov/Vasy win a Cup anytime soon. It's a fine trade.

 

[Forsbergaura21]

2 1sts and a 2nd for two forwards on the decline? A bit too much I think but that’s typical of Tampa

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

I said right along he had nowhere near the value of a top prospect. The trade is roughly a 1st + 2nd for Gourde (the better player) and a 1st and a warm body for Bjorkstrand.

I need to stop responding to your trolling - but if you really think Gourde is the one worth the 1 and 2 holy God thank God you’re not the gm of a hockey team.

You know he was barely a liner on the Kraken who are a bottom five team in the league right? Are you living in 2018?

I was hoping the kraken woukd we get a second for him in a good day.

Anyone with any understanding of the actual players and the situation would see this trade as two first for Björk strand and a 2 + eyssimkmont for gourde.

 

[DFC]

THis just set the price for Rakell pretty high!

To be fair, the league would be in complete disarray if the trade market was set by what JBB will pay for an extra year on a good contract.

 

[HockeyVirus]

It could, but honestly you think a team with Point, Kucherov, Hedman, and Vasi is going to be a lottery team? I'd certainly bet against that.

I mean Tampas 2 best dmen are 34 years old and Vasi has already shown signs of slowing down even though he has been hot a lot of this year

 

[OilersFanatics505]

So... he was traded for a late 1st. Looks like I wasn't so wrong after all.

Unless you think a 2nd is equal to a 5th and 4th line player on an $800k expiring contract then yeah… you are…

 

[BB88]

Atlantic looks even more brutal now than it did before. Also, there's a decent chance that the Bolts and Panthers face each other in the first round. The loser of that series would walk away from it extremely disappointed at a first round exit.

That’s where the Tkachuk injury hurts the Panthers now

You really really want that #1 this year and avoid Tampa in the 1st round

 

[Dog]

Seattle got what they wanted so well done.

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

Tampa Bay did this for Hagel and got called stupid, now he's a 2 way monster who's making Team Canada rosters. Bjorkstrand will fit there like a glove and no draft pick is gonna help their older core of Hedman/Kucherov/Vasy win a Cup anytime soon. It's a fine trade.

He’s great pls enjoy him!

 

[GirardSpinorama]

The atlantic is gonna be a bloodbath

 

[Rschmitz]

Was happier with this before I seen the 2nd and Eyssimont added. Hoping for 50% retention on Bjorkstrand.

 

[Ana Crusis]

How can tampa fit 10 millions ??

 

[Bruce Granville]

THis just set the price for Rakell pretty high!

You know Björkstrand was not the main piece,eh?

 

[DFC]

I need to stop responding to your trolling - but if you really think Gourde is the one worth the 1 and 2 holy God thank God you’re not the gm of a hockey team.

You know he was barely a liner on the Kraken who are a bottom five team in the league right? Are you living in 2018?

I was hoping the kraken woukd we get a second for him in a good day.

Anyone with any understanding of the actual players and the situation would see this trade as two first for Björk strand and a 2 + eyssimkmont for gourde.

Probably pretty close. I think we paid mainly for the extra year on Bjork's contract. That's JBB's M.O.

With Gourde, I do think there's some nostalgia at play. A hope that he can find some of the old magic like we've seen from McDonagh. Even if it's half the reassurance we've seen with McDonagh, it's worth it. I think we've been missing Gourde's moxy since he left.

How can tampa fit 10 millions ??

Expecting to hear retention news. We can't actually fit this without it.

 

[boltsfan86]

He’s great pls enjoy him!

Enjoy Eyssimont, it was always frustrating that he couldn't muster up some better numbers, he is a ton of fun to watch and plays hard every shift.

 

[M88K]

How does TB add 10mil?
Cap circumvention yet again for the Lightning?

You have to know how the cap works, to know they didn't add 10m. To then know how they can fit their salaries in with only 4.7m in space.

They aren't in LTIR.


Capspace accrues through the year.
4.7m in space at the deadline doesn't mean 5.7m cap hit only. LTIR relief pools are probably what you're misconstruing here.


5.7m in deadline cap space such as TB has, allows them to pay out up to 4.7m in daily salaries between now and the end of the season.
The NHL season this year is 192 days long.
Basically take their cap hits and divide it by 192.
For every day they spent on Seattle their cap hit is subtracted that many days.

For Oliver
that's 28k a day for his hit.
take that 28k * the number of days left in the season (let's say 60)
that means he accounts for 1.687m from now to the end of the regular season.
Take Tampa's current space and -1.687m from it.
That's how much is left (provided no other moves, or ahl asisgnments, etc)

For Gourde
It accounts for 1.614 (over the same 60 days)

for a total of roughly (not sure how many days are left in the season) 3.301m added between now and the end of the season.
with 4.7m (roughly) in space

edit (put in 5.7m meant 4.7 in space for tampa)