MarkT
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- Nov 11, 2017
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It has definitely been a bizarre start to the summer. This is the only way I can make sense of it.
First it sounds like Burakovsky won’t be given a QO, and then all of a sudden Joe forks over a pretty high price for 30 point forward.
From the Washington post:
Hard to know if the Caps GM genuinely didn’t want to trade Burakovsky, or he played it perfectly and Sakic fell hook, line, and sinker for a player Washington was never going to keep anyways. Regardless, it seems they weren’t ready to give him away.
And before that obviously no one understood the Soderberg trade. The only thing I can think of is while he did have 49 points last season, he had 51 points in the previous 157 games he played in. He also looked terrible in the playoffs, and has put up 4 points in 18 playoff games while in Colorado. Perhaps with Soderberg getting older and being unsure of how his production carries forward, he became the prime target to gain an asset needed to move on Burakovsky.
The short story right now is the Avs have traded:
2nd round pick, Carl Soderberg, for Burakovsky and Connauton.
The Avs get 10 years younger in the trade up front, gain a little more cap space, but -24 points of production and lose a center. The hope here being their production going forward looks like a wash, but now Compher and Jost can play their natural positions, and the Avs have another skilled winger. A position Soderberg could not play.
It is not a great start to the off-season, but this is the justification that I can see, that will hopefully only make more sense after July 1st.
Nothing against you, but I'm going to reply every time I see this. Burakovsky was not traded for Soderberg. He is not replacing Soderberg in the lineup, and his acquisition shouldn't be seen as in any way related to Soderberg being traded other than we used that 3rd rounder to get Burky. Burakovsky is replacing Wilson, who was out 2nd line winger much of last season. If you want to compare him to someone, compare him to the player whose role he's taking. If you want to talk about what we're losing in Soderberg, compare him to his replacement, namely one of Jost, Kerfoot, Compher or Kamenev.
And hey, look at that: the last two seasons Wilson scored at a rate of 0.32 and 0.42 ppg. Burakovsky produced at a rate of 0.45 and 0.33. So in terms of offense, it looks as though we've just acquired a younger version of Wilson.
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