Confirmed Trade: [ARI/SJ] Adam Helewka for Kyle Wood

[MMC]

Coyotes Acquire Helewka from San Jose in Exchange for Wood

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[Kagomeboy]

Minor league player for minor league player.

 

[Groo]

Works for me

 

[McMozesmadness]

After his rookie pro year Wood was trending extremely well. Kinda fell off this year. I still think he has a ton of upside.

 

[pheasant]

Arizona again. Seems like Chayka is never afraid to make moves. I like that guy.

 

[AvatarAang]

If you have two gameboys you can trade Kyle Wood and he evolves into Kyle Wellwood

 

[Skip2myBordyloo]

Guessing Yotes are drafting D then?

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

If you have two gameboys you can trade Kyle Wood and he evolves into Kyle Wellwood

you can also catch him in the safari zone if you feed kyle wood enough bait.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Didn't realize Wood had a down year this year. He was great in his rookie AHL year

 

[logik47]

Classical Chayka's summer shake-up, I guess...

But this trade is intriguing. Wasn't Arizona high on Kyle Wood?

 

[Drew311]

I thought Wood was going to be a good piece for the Coyotes when they got him in the Boedker deal. Nothing really benefited either team in that deal.

 

[Jormungandr]

Kyle wood developed into an AHL healthy scratch. Nothing lost here.

 

[Kcoyote3]

Basically Sharks have too many AHL forwards and too few AHL defensemen. Figured a trade like this would be happening.

 

[Soundgarden]

I was thinking about Miles Wood for a second.

 

[belair]

San Jose stocking up on ex-Battalion players. You're next, Nick Paul.

Seriously though, Wood had an outstanding year a season ago. What happened?

 

[rt]

San Jose stocking up on ex-Battalion players. You're next, Nick Paul.

Seriously though, Wood had an outstanding year a season ago. What happened?

Big fat regression. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because the Coyotes went from a Tippett style affiliate to a Tocchet style affiliate. The former is good for slow footed players who don’t make fast decisions, while the latter requires quickness in all things.

It wasn’t a smooth transition for the Coyotes either, obviously. They were absolutely horrible for the first half of the season.

I suspect they figured Wood would never be able to fit into this style of play.

 

[belair]

Big fat regression. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because the Coyotes went from a Tippett style affiliate to a Tocchet style affiliate. The former is good for slow footed players who don’t make fast decisions, while the latter requires quickness in all things.

It wasn’t a smooth transition for the Coyotes either, obviously. They were absolutely horrible for the first half of the season.

I suspect they figured Wood would never be able to fit into this style of play.

Hmmmm. Surprising with his ex-linemate Dineen making the jump this year coming up. They fed very well off of each other in Dineen's draft year and were outstanding on the breakout. Looking at the deal though, Halewka looks like he might be a player.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Kyle Wood was deadly 2 years ago in AHL

Im quite surprised Yotes traded him

 

[Summer Rose]

Kyle Wood was deadly 2 years ago in AHL

Im quite surprised Yotes traded him

As rt said, incompatible with the new uptempo system being used at both the NHL and AHL level. Wood was a PP triggerman in 15-16 and got a lot of his points there. This year he didn't get much (if any) PP time, and he got even bigger (lots of places still list him at 6'5" but he's actually 6'7" now) and is growing into his body. He was also injured towards the end of the season and returned in the second round of the Calder Cup playoffs. His decision making looked slow in the playoffs and his skating leaves a lot to be desired. The ceiling's still there but it's looking less likely that he'll reach it.

 

[Sticktape]

Does Helewka have NHL potential?

 

[Painful Quandary]

Does Helewka have NHL potential?

Bottom-six upside.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Does Helewka have NHL potential?

Could be a third liner. Something about his game has always screamed “NHLer in some capacity”, though it’s probably 4th line at best at this point. He’s nothing special but I’ve always liked him and I wouldn’t write him off.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Does Helewka have NHL potential?

As a bang and crash 4th liner. Good size, decent skater.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

If you have two gameboys you can trade Kyle Wood and he evolves into Kyle Wellwood

Trade him again and he becomes Kyle Bestwood!

 

[HockeyAnalystGenius]

San Jose hangs up the phone.