Confirmed Trade: [CAR/MIN] Nino Niederreiter for Victor Rask

[ref19]

Slot NN with Aho and TT and watch the points stack up.

He played with a lot better talent up front with MN and it didn't work

 

[justafan22]

No he wouldn't. Nino would be traded away from leafs much like Wild did now.

Yeah, Nino isn't a top 6 player on half the teams in the league

 

[WeWentBlues]

Carolina has to have added something, right?

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Despite the protestations this is an equal trade of two inconsequential assets. Not worth the post count.

 

[Pyrophorus]

As a complimentary piece? Yea, pretty easily. Nino would slot into the Leafs' top-6 without much issue.

Maybe right now, but not generally....top 9 yes.

 

[ref19]

El Nino being a Cane is quite ironic.

 

[maxbme]

Fair assessment then.. thats basically what I was getting at.

Yeah. Its just weird because it feels like selling SO low.

but it wouldn't be the first time

 

[Cancuks]

I made a bad trade proposal three seasons ago involving Boeser for Niederreiter. Minnesota fans laughed at me and told me to GTFO. Now look.

 

[JackFr]

The main thing people are missing in this thread is that Niederrieter is a superb defensive player. People are looking at his scoring going down and scoffing but he remains very very strong at preventing shots against.

 

[bukwas]

Carolina has to have added something, right?

Yup. 1.25 million per

 

[inthe6ix]

Nice trade, Canes.. and didn't have to give up any RHD to upgrade the FWD position

 

[GoldiFox]

40 points gets you top-6 spot? I feel for those teams then.

Canes #6 most productive forward (and #2C) Lucas Wallmark is on pace for 24 points. It do be like that.

 

[Joe Sakic]

Wtf...that’s all it took to get Nino?!

I think he’s still a good middle-6 forward.

What is making some of you say he is not a good hockey player anymore? All underlying statistics disagree with that statement. On pace for 41 points this season as well.

 

[Pyrophorus]

MIN throwing in the towel?

 

[Bazeek]

This had better be to facilitate some other moves for Minnesota either now or over the summer. In a vacuum this sucks on toast.

 

[SC2GM]

When no one respects +/- Caveman level GMing going on.

 

[Channelcat]

A cap dump for a cap dump? Maybe GMs just need to stop signing bad contracts.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Canes #6 most productive forward (and #2C) Lucas Wallmark is on pace for 24 points. It do be like that.

The Canes don't score.

 

[oobga]

Like this a lot for the Canes. For obvious reasons. The difference in player quality is not close to the 1.25M cap hit difference.

 

[57special]

What the hell are you talking about Rask has a lower PPG than Niederreiter each of the past 3 seasons while being an utterly miserable drain on possession. He's worse than Brandon Sutter.

Niederreiter is having a mediocre season but he was great last year. On top of that, he has had fantastic underlying numbers in the past. This is a massive win for the Canes.

No he was bad last year, though a lot of it was due to a high ankle sprain and a broken leg. His skating was bad last year, but has bounced back this year. Just seems to be snakebitten...he usually has nice hands from close in, and a nice shot, as well as being a complete PITA around the other teams net.
He will be missed in MN...great guy, but with a resurgent Parise, Zucker, Granlund, and Greenway as LSW it didn't take a genius to see that one of either Zucker or Nino was likely to move.

Surprised that more teams weren't in on Nino as a depth forward with scoring upside.

Would hope that MN got more than just Rask. The cap savings aren't that major...Rask looks like a 4th liner at this point.

 

[Eb]

Minnesota saves $1.25 in cap space for the next three years.

 

[GoldiFox]

He played with a lot better talent up front with MN and it didn't work

Aho would be the top scorer on Minnesota by a good margin so who is this "lot better talent"?

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

He played with a lot better talent up front with MN and it didn't work

Minnesota has players a “lot better” than Aho and Teravainen?

Seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

 

[BusQuets]

Wtf...that’s all it took to get Nino?!

I think he’s still a good middle-6 forward.

What is making some of you say he is not a good hockey player anymore? All underlying statistics disagree with that statement. On pace for 41 points this season as well.

Watching him play the last 2 seasons. Nino is also very average defensively even though his corsi stats seems good. Probably more to do with the fact that he always got to play with strong possession players. Also Nino was probably the only Wild forward in the top-9 who never got any short-handed time.

 

[5cotland]

What the hell are you talking about Rask has a lower PPG than Niederreiter each of the past 3 seasons while being an utterly miserable drain on possession. He's worse than Brandon Sutter.

Niederreiter is having a mediocre season but he was great last year. On top of that, he has had fantastic underlying numbers in the past. This is a massive win for the Canes.

Rask - 0.48 PPG
Nino - 0.46 PPG