Confirmed Trade: [COL/MTL] Artturi Lehkonen for Justin Barron, 2024 2nd round pick

[Bouboumaster]

My boi!

 

[Backcheckmonster3]

Decent trade.

 

[ottawa]

This guys name is going down in history.

Arguably the best playoff player on the avs after Makar and Mackinnon and easily the best in the finals.

 

[HabsQC]

Lehkky !

 

[CapSpace]

So glad for Lekh. Enjoy your Cup, Colorado!

 

[Jee]

Well deserved, gg cutiepie

 

[Prairie Habs]

So happy for Lehky

 

[Avs44]

Sakic should just voluntarily upgrade that pick to a '23 1st.

 

[Dr Amazing204]

Colorado wins the trade they won the cup Montreal gets a good player sure but Colorado gets the Stanley Cup

 

[Twisted Sinister]

Happy for our boy!

 

[Hostile Offer]

Win for all parties involved

 

[AyyoCully]

Colorado wins the trade they won the cup Montreal gets a good player sure but Colorado gets the Stanley Cup

Everyone is a winner in this trade!

 

[Bleeker]

My first hockey memory was when i was 10 in 1996. I'm from Quebec city and the Nordiques moved to Colorado that same year so obviously i was cheering for them, they were still my Nordiques. When they won i remember crying from joy and running everywhere in the house.
Last year when Lehkonen scored that goal in overtime to take the Habs to the Final, it was the first time in 25 years that i felt the same kind of overwhelming emotions.
Of course i was sad to see him traded a couple months ago but the fact that he went to the Avs .. just like Roy in 1995, i was kinda relieved... like IF we have to move him, this is the only place i'll feel good about.
There's something almost poetic in the fact that he scored the game winning goal tonight.
God i love hockey !

 

[Hasbro]

Not to bump all the way back to the top but Lebrun in the athletic did a piece on this trade today. Basically it reads that Sakic was always offering Barron but the 2nd was the last second addition right before the deadline that pushed it over the top. It also mentions Hughes asked for someone else straight up and got a no from Sakic, my thought is maybe byram but not sure who else is in the prospect pool on the avalanche

Newhook probably

 

[RationalExpectations]

Win for all parties involved

Right now big win for Colorado let us see if Barron becomes key to winning a SC for MTL then it‘ll be a win for MTL

 

[cave troll]

And the absolute winner of the TDL is Burnaby Joe.
Congratulations.

 

[Archijerej]

My man Artturi has deserved this.

 

[vHAB]

Right now big win for Colorado let us see if Barron becomes key to winning a SC for MTL then it‘ll be a win for MTL

Yeah if only we knew keeping Lehkonen meant the Habs were going to win the cup this year., stupid Habs

 

[JustAHabFan]

Colorado wins the trade they won the cup Montreal gets a good player sure but Colorado gets the Stanley Cup

Didn't know you can win the Stanley Cup while not making the playoff.

 

[Jaska]

Absolutely love his attitude and interviews! Man is a gem.

 

[smirob]

Congrats COL and Lehk - happy he got the cup and happy with the trade from MTL perspective.

 

[Jabba11]

The best! So happy for him

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

What a great trade. Lehkonen was fantastic.

 

[Scintillating10]

Sakic should just voluntarily upgrade that pick to a '23 1st.

I wish

 

[Marshall]

Most importantly, Lehkonen will join Michal Kempny as the trade deadline acquisition that is mentioned in every article about trade deadline acquisitions.