Confirmed Trade: [ANA/PIT] Erik Gudbranson for Andreas Martinsen and 2021 7th round pick

[66-30-33]

BTW Pens love tradin with Ducks

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Crazy to think Gudbranson was a 3rd overall pick at one point.

Or that Ryan Strome was picked before Mika Zibanejad. It's a crap shoot sometimes.....

 

[Empoleon8771]

Wow, I know Guds has a horrible rep here but I thought he had been decent in Pittsburgh and they literally got back a couple pieces of lint from a pocket. Has been back to being horrible?

He was pretty decent for the Penguins, but they have so many defenseman and they had to move one of them out. It's a good job by the Penguins to not take any long-term cap back in exchange for Gudbranson, I don't care about the return if it means they're not taking money back.

 

[ViewsFromThe6ix]

yikes

 

[FrankMTL]

Andreas Martinsen? Wow, I didn't even know he was still paying hockey in North America.

 

[Viqsi]

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[MMC]

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Was updated to a 2021 pick

 

[Mathew Barzal]

Eh sounds good to me.... but i still think we need to make another move for a dmen

Lindholm Guds
Guhle Fowler
Larsson MDZ/Holzer

If manson is out long term id like to see us get another dmen to play with Lindholm over guds and let guds play on bottom pairing with Larsson .

You're going to put him on your first pairing? Can't wait till the Canucks play you guys!

 

[Filthy Dangles]

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

You're going to put him on your first pairing? Can't wait till the Canucks play you guys!

I mean what other options do you see?
Holzer? MDZ?

 

[Killer Orcas]

Great guy in the room horrible on ice. Goodluck Ducks you'll need it coming from a Canucks fan who had the displeasure of watching him do nothing here.

 

[Mick Jagr]

Cautiously optimistic. He can't possibly be any worse than Holzer or Hakanpaa.

You're in for a surprise

 

[UK Canuck]

Why do teams keep willingly trading for Erik Gudbrandson?

 

[Empoleon8771]

I think both Ducks fans and Penguins fans are happy with this deal. Penguins fans just wanted to get rid of Gudbranson's contract without taking any long-term cap back, and I think Ducks fans were willing to pay more than this for Gudbranson. I also think Gudbranson really fits the style of play Anaheim has. Overall, good deal for both sides IMO. What makes me happy with this deal is that the defense comes together a lot nicer on paper without Gudbranson:

Dumoulin-Letang
Pettersson-Schultz
Johnson-Marino
Riikola-Ruhwedel

That's just so much better, with a LH-RH shot on each pair.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

I have to think PIT is retaining some $ here.

 

[Jumptheshark]

...That's the fallout from Sbisa being claimed on waivers...!?!?!

yep

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

He was decent last year, but took a step back so far this year. Maybe Lindholm can babysit him like Pettersson did.

 

[UK Canuck]

Why do teams keep willingly trading for Erik Gudbrandson?

its like there's a disease in NHL front offices, "he's a big defenseman who was a high pick, he must be good" doesn't really work after 9 years in the league, most of which have been utterly pitiful

 

[Jumptheshark]

Ok, now how many other defensemen have to get injured before we move Jack Johnson?

Johnson to Vancouver for Erickson

 

[ottawa]

Gudbranson seems to play for a new team every season

This is his 4th team in 10 years but ok.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Timing is everything. Penguins found a team desperate enough to value Erik Gudbranson enough to take him on when he has another year left at $4M cap hit that they were able to jettison him and give themselves some cap flexibility.

We've seen the cost of moving cap space and how expensive it can be, Penguins got lucky and found a desperate partner.

 

[domaug]

Why do teams keep willingly trading for Erik Gudbrandson?

why do Canucks fans keep insisting he was this horrendous player while he was with the Pens?

he's overpaid, absolutely, but in the Pens system i would've rather kept him over Jack Johnson. that's assuming they could've only moved one of them which i hope isn't the case.

 

[I Like Eich]

Yikes Anaheim

 

[Machinehead]

Rutherford activated a cheat code with this one.

 

[K Fleur]

Gudbranson is a big, soft, idiot of a hockey player.

Seems like a nice person though.