Confirmed Trade: [NSH/MIN] Mikael Granlund for Kevin Fiala

[mattihp]

Wild didn't get a pick, because Fenton didn't ask for one:
"Fenton said he had been working on a Granlund deal for a while and discussed him with several teams. He did not ask the Predators to include a draft pick." Sarah McLellan, Startribune

So much for the "It's Fiala he wanted".

He wanted some one close to Granlund's value to replace him in the lineup and did not care to get more assets. This kind of trade usually is a sign that the team wants to change its culture, I just thought Granlund could be a part of that, no matter how they would want to change it.

 

[Pandaman11]

Not as horrible as Niederreiter-Rask, but I'd give Fiala some time. Granlund broke out in his 5th season, Fiala is currently in his 3rd. Granlund had a pace of 47 points in his 3rd season, Fiala is on pace for 41.

 

[Pandaman11]

. If potential were an indicator of value, then Yakupov would be still in the league.

All Yakupov had was potential for junior star, but not for the best league in the world

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Mikael Granlund moved from C to W and broke out. Does Fiala have such a move available for him?

W toC hopefully .

In all honesty though, he’s 22 years old and to think he can’t improve is Dumb. First of all, he’s got elite skill. His main issues, from what I’ve seen, are his strength on the puck and defensive awareness. The latter is less likely to take a big step, but if Fiala improves his strength he’s going to be allowed to use his skill and speed a lot more. Not to mention the boost he’s going to get from going from a 2/3rd liner in Nsh to a 1st liner in MN that gets big minutes and top power play time.

 

[Sota Popinski]

He was not trying to shop Granlund, he was trying to get Fiala. Fiala was on Predators, it was the only team he could trade with.

Wrong. Michael Russo said Fenton did shop Granlund to other teams

 

[Sweetpotato]

Until Fiala recovers and improves, this was a very poor trade for MIN.

 

[gwh]

Wrong. Michael Russo said Fenton did shop Granlund to other teams

But only Preds had the Chiafenton's fav player in whole wide world. Hard to shop with a pipe vision.

 

[Gh24]

You make a good point. I never thought about it like that. I’ll just always wonder if you guys couldn’t have gotten a better C for Jones.

If I recall, not too many were rumored to be available. RNH was one of them.

 

[roon]

Fiala’s deke’s are so good he breaks his own legs.

 

[WILDTATE10]

Was really looking forward to Granny and Kaprizov playing together in a year and a half. Hopefully Kaprizov still even wants to come here after what Fentons doing to this team

 

[triggrman]

Until Fiala recovers and improves, this was a very poor trade for MIN.

Recovers?

 

[NoName]

Nashville made out like bandits here.

 

[rynryn]

this "culture" change everyone talks about...You realize that Suter is the "culture".

 

[rynryn]

Wrong. Michael Russo said Fenton did shop Granlund to other teams

what was the verbiage? Sounded like he was taking calls on Granlund from other teams but had Fiala targeted for most of the year. iirc.

not the quote i was thinking of but still...

On Monday, Fenton landed the player he drafted in the first round with the Nashville Predators five years ago and one he had been trying to get from his old boss, David Poile, for “a long time.”

 

[MAHJ71]

Wild didn't get a pick, because Fenton didn't ask for one:
"Fenton said he had been working on a Granlund deal for a while and discussed him with several teams. He did not ask the Predators to include a draft pick." Sarah McLellan, Startribune

This absolute lunacy to me.

 

[rynryn]

Not as horrible as Niederreiter-Rask, but I'd give Fiala some time. Granlund broke out in his 5th season, Fiala is currently in his 3rd. Granlund had a pace of 47 points in his 3rd season, Fiala is on pace for 41.

the biggest issue i have with this is Granlund was a very, very good passer with excellent vision and probably twice as "creative" offensively as anyone else on our team. its not straight up point production i'm worried about but the problem was we keep trying to find a shooter worthy of Granlund...now we have Donato and possibly Fiala if he's as good as Fenton believes but we degraded our ability to give them the puck in scoring positions.

 

[mattihp]

Can anyone photoshop Grana in a preds jersey? I think at this point I need to see that..

 

[CanadienShark]

Damn. For some reason I was thinking it was Markus Granlund and I was like "whhaaaaat?"

Kind of feel the same, but the other way now.

 

[Soundgarden]

You make a good point. I never thought about it like that. I’ll just always wonder if you guys couldn’t have gotten a better C for Jones.

I think the players rumored to be available were Johansen and RNH. I think we made the best choice we could at the time.

 

[Lateralous]

I think the players rumored to be available were Johansen and RNH. I think we made the best choice we could at the time.

Johansen plays like a top 1C when the playoffs start. While it can be frustrating sometime during the regular season, it's not the worst thing to have a few guys who can turn up their game in April.

 

[Soundgarden]

Johansen plays like a top 1C when the playoffs start. While it can be frustrating sometime during the regular season, it's not the worst thing to have a few guys who can turn up their game in April.

The only thing bad about his game is he doesn't shoot the puck as much as he should. Drives us crazy.

I hope we see Granlund elevate Turris' game, would be pretty important going forward.

 

[BusQuets]

I still can't understand that this is the value of a guy who's in top-10 in RW scoring for last 3 seasons and is a good two-way player on top of that. AND is still RFA. Fenton better hope he's right about Fiala.

 

[triggrman]

Johansen plays like a top 1C when the playoffs start. While it can be frustrating sometime during the regular season, it's not the worst thing to have a few guys who can turn up their game in April.

Johansen has been playing good all year this year despite missing Arvy and Forsberg for 20+ games.

 

[Bazeek]

I still can't understand that this is the value of a guy who's in top-10 in RW scoring for last 3 seasons and is a good two-way player on top of that. AND is still RFA. Fenton better hope he's right about Fiala.

Granlund's an RFA even less than he is a center. If the Predators want to keep him beyond next season he's going to cost.

 

[ref19]

I still can't understand that this is the value of a guy who's in top-10 in RW scoring for last 3 seasons and is a good two-way player on top of that. AND is still RFA. Fenton better hope he's right about Fiala.

Huh? Wild got a haul and Preds got a 15-20 goal, 45-50’assist guy. Good deal.