Confirmed Trade: [MIN/PIT] Will Butcher for Maxim Cajkovic

[MK9]

Butcher is a PP specialist defenseman that is a pylon and can't skate.

So, Billy G's favorite kind of player. Must be an amazing locker room guy...

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Season is saved

 

[kvladimir]

No clue but "Will Butcher" is the scariest name for a hockey player I've ever heard.

He had a scarier-named teammate.

(Jack Rathbone)

 

[Cypher]

Not Avs legend Will Butcher! Can't believe the Avs got hosed by this guy not signing with them and choosing to become a UFA after college.

 

[biturbo19]

So we get a bad haircut, they get no hair. Seems about right.

Seriously, should've kept Addison if we were going to do this. Maybe the Wild are worried that they are going to have to pay Faber too much money if he keeps piling up points on the PP?

It's definitely kind of funny to have to go out and make a deal like this for a warm body on defence, who just happens to be a PP Specialist who is useless at everything else. After jettisoning Addison earlier. But obviously circumstances have evolved with injuries to key guys since then.

And it's not like they're giving up anything of any value for Butcher. Cajkovic is what...basically just a contract slot that is being used? Not that Minny got anything noteworthy for Addison either, but they still probably kind of come out ahead at the margins with the draft pick.

 

[BagHead]

Guessing he'll be an injury callup, and that Bill Guerin is hopeful that forcing one of the prospects off the Iowa blueline helps fix it. From all reports, they've been a real clusterF down there.

 

[3074326]

Do people really not know who Will Butcher is?

The guy had a 44 point season, as a rookie defenseman, that's not nothing.

He’s also an AHL player now and that was seven years ago, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that newer fans haven’t heard of him.

 

[Seanaconda]

Where were you on that one Weekes?

In his last trade reveal he posted it in front of sewers that were steaming.

That was a direct hint at hell which meant a devils trade was coming up

 

[Silky mitts]

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Who are these players?

Give me the Coles notes.

Butcher scored almost 50 points in his rookie season back in 17-18 season for the Devils in the NHL
and another 30 points the next season.. then disappeared

 

[Empoleon8771]

So we get a bad haircut, they get no hair. Seems about right.

Seriously, should've kept Addison if we were going to do this. Maybe the Wild are worried that they are going to have to pay Faber too much money if he keeps piling up points on the PP?

Uh, this is an AHL move. Will Butcher should absolutely not be sniffing a NHL roster at this point.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Terrific NCAA career. Dreadful NHLer, in decline right from his rookie season.

 

[Pucklington]

 

[57special]

Uh, this is an AHL move. Will Butcher should absolutely not be sniffing a NHL roster at this point.

If so, it's weird, because the Wild have a ton of young D prospects in Iowa, and getting Butcher would only block some of them from TOI. Also, Butcher's best NHL years, by a long shot, were all under Hynes in NJ.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Guerin hated Addison is the take away here.

 

[Whalers Fan]

Legend has it, a shoe salesman once scored 4 touchdowns in one game.

Why not? A Zamboni driver won an NHL game playing in goal.

 

[al secord]

Why not? A Zamboni driver won an NHL game playing in goal.

My cat's breath smells like catfood.

 

[SUX2BU]

Will Butcher has no chin.

you have no neck

 

[BagHead]

My cat's breath smells like catfood.

Well, this comment just makes it seem like playing goal in the NHL is the natural outcome for a Zamboni driver.

Totally unrelated, do you need a license to drive a Zamboni? Asking for a friend.

 

[CraigBillington]

you have no neck

Wonder if Tyler Myers has some to spare.

 

[Mickey the mouse]

Guerin hated Addison is the take away here.

WRONG

Guerin LOVED Addison that's why he traded for him

addison just isn't a NHL defender

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

I’m old enough to remember that Butcher was suppose to be a long time top 4 OFD for the Devils

 

[Lt Dan]

Butcher is a PP specialist defenseman that is a pylon and can't skate.