Confirmed Trade: [CHI/TBL] Slater Koekkoek and 2019 5th round pick for Jan Rutta and 2019 7th round pick

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[Foppberg]

All the trades today!

 

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[780il]

Maybe now we get a big one?

 

[canucks20]

I don't get how no other team could beat this offer

 

[God King Fudge]

Anyone with some insight on Rutta?

 

[Kotkaniemi15]

So many depth trades today lol. Hopefully Koekkoek can break out in Chicago like Strome.

 

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[RememberTheRoar]

Anyone with some insight on Rutta?

Chicago waived him and buried him in the AHL a while back.

Looked okay for a while last year, looked worse this season.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

How did we give up a better pick? Is Rutta having a better season than I thought?

Honestly would have been better for us if we just traded Koekkoek and our 5th for better pick. Good for Chicago though. Could work out real good for them.

 

[CupInSIX]

Anyone with some insight on Rutta?

I don't recall any Hawks fans with nice things to say about Rutta

 

[Kevin Musto]

Anyone with some insight on Rutta?

Solid until the injury. Hasn't been good since.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Hawks getting younger and clearing up more cap space.
Rutta was odd-man out once Murphy came back from injury.

 

[ReLyT]

Why not try him out and upgrade a pick.
No brainer

 

[canucks20]

Chicago gets an upgrade in player and pick. Weird deal for Tampa

 

[93LEAFS]

For as great as Al Murray is outside the first round, his top 10 has been really spotty (Connolly, Koekkeok and to a lesser extent Drouin). Now, getting two guys worthy of going top 3 outside the first round absolutely balances it out (Point and Kucherov).

 

[DistantThunderRep]

I don't get how no other team could beat this offer

Me neither. This is the most shocking part of the trade. I would have figured someone would have offered up a fourth and got him a straight side ways trade.

 

[CapnZin]

Wow... high 1st rd pick lost that much value?

 

[DistantThunderRep]

For as great as Al Murray is outside the first round, his top 10 has been really spotty (Connolly, Koekkeok and to a lesser extent Drouin). Now, getting two guys worthy of going top 3 outside the first round absolutely balances it out (Point and Kucherov).

Connolly wasn't Murray.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Chicago gets an upgrade in player and pick. Weird deal for Tampa

"Upgrade" in player remains to be seen.

 

[ShelbyZ]

This trade is super confusing...

Not yet 25YO, former 1st round pick dman buried on NHL roster with deep blueline
5th

=

28YO Overpaid rental Dman buried in the AHL on a not so great team
7th

 

[93LEAFS]

Connolly wasn't Murray.

True, I forgot he was hired in August, and grouped Yzerman's drafting record with his.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

WTF how is Rutta making 2.25 million this year? Da hell Brisebois?

 

[CupInSIX]

This trade is super confusing...

Not yet 25YO, former 1st round pick dman buried on NHL roster with deep blueline
5th

=

28YO Overpaid rental Dman buried in the AHL on a not so great team
7th

Steve Yzerman is just not himself lately

 

[wej20]

So is Rutta going to play? or just be the #7?