Confirmed Trade: [EDM/NSH/CBJ] Mark Letestu to Columbus, Pontus Aberg to Edmonton, 4th to Nashville

[Wingsfan 4 life]

So many 3 ways this year, NHL should partner their awards show up with the AVN awards. Both in Vegas.

 

[Roof Daddy]

I like this for the Oil. He's nothing more than a 4th liner, but he's got great wheels, is good on the forecheck, and is under contract next year at 650k.

A 4th line next year of Aberg-Khaira-Kassian sounds good to me, and it comes in just over 3 mil. Not bad work by Chia.

 

[TFHockey]

Letestu played in Columbus before, right?

Yup, and he planned to retire there after his career. So things worked out pretty well for Letestu! I like the trade for Edmonton as well.

 

[TFHockey]

Chia loses right?

Chia is really good at small trades. Very. Small. Almost always wins those.

 

[EDMOILERS9729]

So far Chia has been good at the deadline imo. Now lets see what he does with Maroon...

 

[BatVader]

Man.... tomorrow is going to be boring!

 

[MaxDummy]

Preds making room for Tolvanen

 

[voxel]

Aberg is a slephyshev clone.

Meh all around for all 3 teams...

I would love another Sleppy - more speed, skill, grit. Testube is old, slow, but good on the dot. Best of luck Mark!

 

[rent free]

nashville did this to make space for tolvanen

 

[CBJx614]

Me gusta mucho

 

[izzy]

i guess it was time to give up on aberg

 

[Riptide]

Is this good for the Oilers? And what type of player is Aberg?

Well it's a depth prospect who's in his early 20s who should be closer to being a productive NHLer then what a 4th will produce. Odds are he doesn't do shit... so in that sense, it's kind of meh for the Oilers... on the other hand, odds are a 4th wouldn't do shit for them either... so yeah.

Personally I like it, even though Aberg is a longshot. If he does do anything, it will be in the next 24 months or sooner. That 4th wouldn't be doing anything for 5 years.

 

[Mortiest Morty]

nashville did this to make space for tolvanen

How do you figure? Tolvanen can't come over for a while and by then, the rosters have long since been expanded.

 

[ThirdManIn]

I'm not sure why Nashville would need to do this to make space for Tolvanen. Can someone save me some CBA-reading time? Tolvanen won't come over until after the deadline if I'm not mistaken, and by then rosters have expanded. Nashville only had 43/50 contract spots taken.

 

[Drew311]

Is Aberg fast? I recall Chiarelli wanting to add speed.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Chia must be really into these 1-for-1 trades. Aberg a big upgrade on Letestu though.

 

[rent free]

How do you figure? Tolvanen can't come over for a while and by then, the rosters have long since been expanded.

maybe they're making more deadline moves. they also save a bit of cap with this trade

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Don’t mind this at all. Our LW’s are slow as dirt. A speed injection will help.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Wew, blockbuster

 

[ThirdManIn]

Well it's a depth prospect who's in his early 20s who should be closer to being a productive NHLer then what a 4th will produce. Odds are he doesn't do ****... so in that sense, it's kind of meh for the Oilers... on the other hand, odds are a 4th wouldn't do **** for them either... so yeah.

Personally I like it, even though Aberg is a longshot. If he does do anything, it will be in the next 24 months or sooner. That 4th wouldn't be doing anything for 5 years.

Aberg didn't produce much, but he played better than his numbers read. There's a chance that if he is given an opportunity in the top 9 in Edmonton that the change of scenery helps him get on the scoresheet more often, but yeah I wouldn't expect him to produce much. He's basically the classic low-risk/high-reward type of trade. If it works out? Great. If not? Oh well.

 

[Soundgarden]

Is Aberg fast? I recall Chiarelli wanting to add speed.

Speedy, but little finish.

 

[Atrusai]

A threeway you say?

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

Uh.. Aberg got us something after all. A 4th for an offensive black hole is more than enough.

 

[MessierII]

He’s been a scorer at every other level. They should give him a shot with mcd.

 

[Bread and Circuses]

After the Pit/VGK/OTT trade someone here posted that the likelihood of another three way trade this year was less than one percent.