Greg Wyshynski
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I truly, dearly, honestly and sincerely feel terrible for what Senators fans are going through right now. This is a waking hockey nightmare.
Some of those packages are about the same price that Sens paid for Duchene, EK is arguably the 3rd best player in the game and if that’s the cost u can see why I’ve been so against what Dorian paid for Duchene. I can’t believe Karlsson is as good as gone
Series of tweets from Bobby Mac this morning breaking down what happened:
I think I, finally, understand the breakdown of the three-way OTT-VGK-PIT trade from yesterday that was initially rejected by the league. If that is the case — me actually understanding it — the final approved deal started with Tobias Lindberg...
PIT sent its third-round pick in 2019 to VGK for minor-league player Tobias Lindberg. That, I believe, was the first deal officially done. If it wasn’t the first deal, it was certainly the most important one for getting the other deals approved.
Once VGK were in possession of PIT 3rd round pick in 2019, it could be traded to OTT for Derick Brassard.
As soon as Brassard ended up in VGK, the Knights could then retain 40 per cent of his salary and trade him to PIT for Ryan Reaves and VAN 4th round pick (owned by PIT) in 2018. VGK and PIT had been talking this past week about a Reaves deal.
The final piece of the puzzle was then PIT sending its 2018 1st round pick and goaltending prospect Filip Gustavsson to OTT for OTT 3rd round pick in 2018 and minor league player Vincent Dunn.
In the first go-round, which was rejected by the league, as I understand it, Ottawa wasn’t receiving anything tangible from VGK for Brassard. That necessitated coming up with the Lindberg trade between PIT and VGK and PIT 3rd round pick in 2019 as currency for Brassard.
That additional cost for PIT likely meant the PIT-OTT deal involving Gustavsson and PIT 1st round pick in 2018 had to be re-jigged a little from what it originally looked like. But it appears the Lindberg transaction was the catalyst to getting all four separate deals approved.
So I guess it was a good thing that they left Tampa and Dumont out of this.
Series of tweets from Bobby Mac this morning breaking down what happened:
I think I, finally, understand the breakdown of the three-way OTT-VGK-PIT trade from yesterday that was initially rejected by the league. If that is the case — me actually understanding it — the final approved deal started with Tobias Lindberg...
PIT sent its third-round pick in 2019 to VGK for minor-league player Tobias Lindberg. That, I believe, was the first deal officially done. If it wasn’t the first deal, it was certainly the most important one for getting the other deals approved.
Once VGK were in possession of PIT 3rd round pick in 2019, it could be traded to OTT for Derick Brassard.
As soon as Brassard ended up in VGK, the Knights could then retain 40 per cent of his salary and trade him to PIT for Ryan Reaves and VAN 4th round pick (owned by PIT) in 2018. VGK and PIT had been talking this past week about a Reaves deal.
The final piece of the puzzle was then PIT sending its 2018 1st round pick and goaltending prospect Filip Gustavsson to OTT for OTT 3rd round pick in 2018 and minor league player Vincent Dunn.
In the first go-round, which was rejected by the league, as I understand it, Ottawa wasn’t receiving anything tangible from VGK for Brassard. That necessitated coming up with the Lindberg trade between PIT and VGK and PIT 3rd round pick in 2019 as currency for Brassard.
That additional cost for PIT likely meant the PIT-OTT deal involving Gustavsson and PIT 1st round pick in 2018 had to be re-jigged a little from what it originally looked like. But it appears the Lindberg transaction was the catalyst to getting all four separate deals approved.
Dorion didn’t get six 1st rounders, Jarry, Sprong and World’s Best GM mug for a #2C? Fail. Sad.
#SensTwits
From John Shannon Sportsnet
So my question...why would Vegas take money on Brassard and help Pittsburgh? It appears otherwise, Brassard was heading to a western team, VGK got involved to keep him in the east. As I was told “Better to face him in round 4 than 2.”
