Confirmed with Link: Fiala to LA for Brock Faber and '22 1st

[Bazeek]

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[HotDish]

Please don't get fleeced Billy!

 

[NHL1674]

 

[DeagleJenkins]

1st + Faber.

 

[Bazeek]

Faber and LA's 1st is exactly as "whatever" as I figured a deal with LA would be.

Better than some of the worst case scenarios, I guess.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Not a bad haul. Faber is pretty good.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

19th overall + top 4 d prospect that I’m not over the moon about. Pretty much what I expected. Hoped they could get a bigger price like 7th OA, but I think value is probably equivalent to 7OA

 

[DeagleJenkins]

what were the offers from NJ and OTT if they were the front runners and then it comes out to be LA? we were asking too much?

 

[HotDish]

Probably not as good as I hoped but definitely not as bad as it could've gone for a trade imo. I like Faber personally. Is that 5 picks now in the top 3 rounds?

 

[AKL]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

 

[thestonedkoala]

I think this is the best win win for Minnesota. LA is looking to compete now. Minnesota shores up their right side with a guy from their home town and gets a top 20 pick.

 

[TwiztedHeat]

Lol

 

[thestonedkoala]

what were the offers from NJ and OTT if they were the front runners and then it comes out to be LA? we were asking too much?

Probably very low offers. Or Fiala nixed signing there long term

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Funny. I don’t know what you call it. Maybe it’s maturation. Maybe it’s loss of hope. But, when we did Granlund for Fiala, I was furious. Now, I should be furious, but it was too expected.

 

[DeagleJenkins]

Probably very low offers. Or Fiala nixed signing there long term

indeed. that is one thing that Fiala maybe did to get back at BG, say no to OTT and NJ simply so we cant get that high end trade we wanted. who knows.

 

[AKL]

Funny. I don’t know what you call it. Maybe it’s maturation. Maybe it’s loss of hope. But, when we did Granlund for Fiala, I was furious. Now, I should be furious, but it was too expected.

I was hoping we could at least get some offense back in a deal, but you know how that saying goes, hope is the enemy of happiness, or something like that.

 

[Jbcraig1883]

Lambos, ROR, Hunt on the left and Addison and Faber on the right in terms of D pipeline, right?

 

[keppel146]

Was hoping for better but could be worse I guess

 

[DeagleJenkins]

Lambos, ROR, Hunt on the left and Addison and Faber on the right in terms of D pipeline, right?

missing Peart on the left. Masters on the right.

 

[Goose312]

I actually really like Faber but would have still preferred Holtz as a better replacement for Fiala, and unless the Wild package their 1sts to move up I don't really care too much about the pick.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Faber was listed as the third best defensive hockey prospect. Minnesota has to now have one of the best defensive pools in the NHL now.

 

[MNNumbers]

Expected. We all could see the handwriting on this one for a long time. Everyone else in the league could, too, and it came down at the end to who could reasonably expect to sign Fiala.

Basically, this is a trade for cap space. That's all.

Now, maybe, since you have 2 firsts, you can use the LA pick, and package both of them to move up in the draft order. I could see something like that happening, and then this would look better.

 

[MuckOG]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Currently wondering about extension talks, if Fiala basically nixed them and this is just the return for 1 guaranteed year, or if Guerin didn't care to involve them at all.

 

[TwiztedHeat]

Hopefully we can get a deal on Trocheck or Strome and Rossi is the real deal quickly. I guess maybe give Jost top 6 minutes? Idk, need a vet with Boldy/Rossi, would be nice to have a Trocheck with them to alleviate pressure on Rossi to have to be a stud center right away.