Confirmed with Link: Martinsen to Montreal for Sven Andrighetto

[Vaslof]

I like the trade. Martisen was a zero impact player at least in the regular season, the guy we get in return seems to have some potential.

 

[Ivan13]

Ghetto is 10 times the player Martinsen is.

 

[dahrougem2]

Martinsen sucks

 

[Cousin Eddie]

I guess that goa he scored when the Avs beat the Habs was meaningful.

 

[Foppa2118]

I'm fine with this, but this is such a Bender move. This team is gonna be soft as butter next year.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Martinsen stopped hitting a while ago. I bet this will put him on notice for that and he'll do better in MTL.

Does Sven play with the Avs the rest of the season?

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Does Sven play with the Avs the rest of the season?

Of course he does. Did you expect Marty to be replaced with Compher or Greer? Don't be absurd.

 

[The Kingslayer]

I'm fine with this, but this is such a Bender move. This team is gonna be soft as butter next year.

Martinsen had less hits than both Charmin and Scotch the last little while.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

I think this is a solid move for the Avs. No it's not a draft pick like a lot of people wanted the Avs to be getting today, but it's a prospect the Avs are high on and have been for a while, in the eyes of the Avs this is easily better then the 5th or 6th round pick we would've gotten instead.



This was a good move, Martinsen is basically useless and while Sven isn't by any means a surefire Top 6 NHLer down the road, he's still young and has shown good skill in the AHL at least, so he may have something to discover still in the NHL.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

It's a good enough deal, but it's still not enough.

FIRE EVERYONE!!!

 

[InjuredChoker]

Аrpon Basu‏ @ArponBasu 16m16 minutes ago

Andreas Martinsen just referred to himself as a "really good bottom six player.". Not sure I've ever heard a player say that.

 

[AvsGuy]

Аrpon Basu‏ @ArponBasu 16m16 minutes ago

Andreas Martinsen just referred to himself as a "really good bottom six player.". Not sure I've ever heard a player say that.

I guess it's hard to judge ourselves accurately

 

[Sea Eagles]

Ok spaghettio

 

[tucker3434]

It'd be great if we kept Ghetto next year as an AHL guy/depth call up. We need more skill in San Antonio. But he probably only wants a 1 way deal.

 

[Sea Eagles]

It'd be great if we kept Ghetto next year as an AHL guy/depth call up. We need more skill in San Antonio. But he probably only wants a 1 way deal.

This is Joe Sakic & Jared Bednar.

He'll come to Avs, show for a few games that he cares a little bit (until our culture seeps in), and be promoted to our top lines.

Think Nieto
Think Barberio

Hahahahaha ! Man, this club is SO lost.

 

[tigervixxxen]

I don't know much about Sven, anyone want to enlighten me about his game? I do know he's a former Huskie though

AJ asked Sakic why he didn't just pick Sven up off of waivers and he said it wasn't the right move for the team. Nice answer!

 

[chet1926]

Pretty happy about this move. Martinsen is a ECHL caliber player, Sven is 10 times the player he is. Even if Sven never amounts to anything more than a AHL player this is a win.

 

[tigervixxxen]

I'm fine with this, but this is such a Bender move. This team is gonna be soft as butter next year.

People might have some legit complaints about Bednar but soft is absolutely not what he's after.

 

[ArWKo]

A perfectly fine move on a day the Avs struggled to clear a bar buried a mile underground.

I think he has the ability to contribute more offense in the bottom 6, obviously they lose Marty's size and hitting.

 

[Sea Eagles]

Pretty happy about this move. Martinsen is a ECHL caliber player, Sven is 10 times the player he is. Even if Sven never amounts to anything more than a AHL player this is a win.

Sakic has said ok-spaghettio will be starting with the big team.

 

[chet1926]

Sakic has said ok-spaghettio will be starting with the big team.

Just because he starts here doesn't mean down the road he becomes an AHLer. I'm not fully sold he can be an every day NHLer.

 

[tigervixxxen]

I think this is a solid move for the Avs. No it's not a draft pick like a lot of people wanted the Avs to be getting today, but it's a prospect the Avs are high on and have been for a while, in the eyes of the Avs this is easily better then the 5th or 6th round pick we would've gotten instead.



This was a good move, Martinsen is basically useless and while Sven isn't by any means a surefire Top 6 NHLer down the road, he's still young and has shown good skill in the AHL at least, so he may have something to discover still in the NHL.

We'll see if he stays longer than the next 5 weeks

 

[ArWKo]

Just because he starts here doesn't mean down the road he becomes an AHLer. I'm not fully sold he can be an every day NHLer.

Assuming the Avs qualify him I can see him being a tweener/first call up type once the Avs have a roster that is solidly NHL players. Next season I could see him being in the NHL a fair bit just because of roster composition considerations (if he's here at all).

 

[Foppa2118]

People might have some legit complaints about Bednar but soft is absolutely not what he's after.

I think his obsession with Smith, him calling Goloubef an NHLer even though he's never stuck in the NHL, stripping McLeod of an A and benching him right off the bat and most the year, and now dealing Martinsen for Andrighetto says otherwise. I think this is telling of the kind of players he likes.

I think he's obsessed with a mechanical style of play that emphasizes positional play at the expense of physical play and emotion. He wants smaller players that can skate into the position he wants, rather than finish their checks. Doesn't matter that they're not very talented or capable of scoring at a rate that makes that style beneficial.

I think this has turned the team into more of a perimeter team than they should be. They don't shoot because they're too concerned with puck possession, they don't send enough bodies to the net to battle physically, and they don't finish their checks. They just skate with the puck and either turn it over or miss the net.

 

[tigervixxxen]

I think his obsession with Smith, him calling Goloubef an NHLer even though he's never stuck in the NHL, stripping McLeod of an A and benching him right off the bat and most the year, and now dealing Martinsen for Andrighetto says otherwise. I think this is telling of the kind of players he likes.

I think he's obsessed with a mechanical style of play that emphasizes positional play at the expense of physical play and emotion. He wants smaller players that can skate into the position he wants, rather than finish their checks. Doesn't matter that they're not very talented or capable of scoring at a rate that makes that style beneficial.

I think this has turned the team into more of a perimeter team than they should be. They don't shoot because they're too concerned with puck possession, they don't send enough bodies to the net to battle physically, and they don't finish their checks. They just skate with the puck and either turn it over or miss the net.

They do those things because this team is full of lazy bums. The foundation of his system is the forecheck, you can't do that if you play soft.

Goloubef played the entirety of last season in the NHL so that's not an inaccurate statement. They loved Smith so much they waived him. McLeod was coming to the end of his time. Martinsen does jack crsp except for a hit once a week and he rarely made those highlight reel hits anymore. Those things don't mean anything though. He encourages Z to play physical is another. Size doesn't matter, it's how you play. We already have a great enough collection of big, slow and soft lazy bums.