Tage Thompson is probably the best piece in that package and is far from meh. Berglund is very good 2nd/3rd line center on a good contract.
The Jets equivalent of Thompson is Roslovic or Vesalainen.
The full Jets offer to match the St Louis one is probably something like Roslovic, Perreault, Armia, 2019 1st, 2020 2nd.
I'd rank both Roslo and Vesa ahead of TT at this point. Nonetheless, your return looks good, and even better if we plug in Myers and save that 2019 first -- which might have been possible had we, like STL, retained our 2018 1st our even picked up a 2nd one.
I feel like Chevy made that Stastny trade betting that he'd be able to sign him longer-term, rather than assuming he'd lose him, as he did. Maybe, given the annual gymnastics that come with today's cap complexities, a successful GM needs to think past the next deal and the next deal, esp when helming a D&D team. PoMo isn't going to suddenly find trust in Petan and Dano at this point, and a Little or Lowry injury, along with MP's annual 30 games out, is going to cost us some games in an even tighter division than last year.
I get that we made it past NSH, and that's great, but I feel like the price we paid to make it that far, given the cap pressure, puts us in danger of becoming a yo-yo team, rather than the eternal competitor we (and everyone else) wants to be, without the luxury of Tavares-ing our way out.
