Confirmed Trade: [VGK/OTT] Mark Stone, Tobias Lindberg for Erik Brannstrom, Oscar Lindberg, and 2020 2nd round pick

[IvanProvorov]

Yeah. I'm still taking it hard though. The last time I was this excited for a prospect one of my teams had was John Gibson.

Brannstrom is basically Vatanen with better vision and higher IQ. And harder to knock off the puck when physically challenged.

I do feel like now all of a sudden people are sleeping on Glass though. Dude is a fantastic passer, very smart player, and plays a responsible defensive game. Glad Vegas still has him and didn't have to package him to grab Stone.

Dont worry. He'll trade Glass next year for an overpaid, overrated winger.

 

[Cult of Hynes]

Can’t wait to see what the return for Brannstrom, Tkachuk, and Chabot will be in a few years.

 

[TkachukNorris79]

Dont worry. He'll trade Glass next year for an overpaid, overrated winger.

Mark Stone is overrated? And overpaid? Come on, he's one of if not the best two way winger in the game. He helped carry two rookies this year to over 0.6 p/g while he was over a full point per game. He has the most steals in the NHL since he came into the league. He's a stud.

Ottawa should have kept him but clearly he didn't wanna be there, and rightfully so. Great trades for both teams considering their circumstances.

 

[tmg]

Of course he had leverage. He had a bidding war, you use the other teams in the hunt as your leverage.

From what I hear there wasn’t really a bidding war though. There were some teams offering rental prices for him and one team offering a higher price they were comfortable with because they had an agreed extension. The two weren’t in the same ballpark.

Are Ottawa and Vegas are playing "Old Maid" with Tobias Lindberg?

Did someone else make the ‘Melnyk cutting nameplate costs by demanding they bring back a player that can wear the jersey of a player they traded away’ joke? Not gonna read the whole thread to see.

 

[analyser]

Really happy he didnt go to Boston

Congrats VGK fans!

Yes I would like to beat the Leafs without Stone to prove the Leafs do not sit on top of the pedestal. Watch out Leaf fans your yearly nightmare is coming. 1st round and done.

 

[IceManCat]

Considering the position they were in the Sens got a great deal

 

[Pandaman11]

When was the last time that two players with the same name got traded for each other?

 

[Pandaman11]

Mark Stone is overrated? And overpaid? Come on, he's one of if not the best two way winger in the game. He helped carry two rookies this year to over 0.6 p/g while he was over a full point per game. He has the most steals in the NHL since he came into the league. He's a stud.

I think he was talking about Tatar or Pacioretty

 

[Pandaman11]

clearly he didn't wanna be there, and rightfully so

Did you hear him talk to TSN yesterday? He was almost crying. He thought the future of his young family would be in Ottawa.

 

[TkachukNorris79]

Did you hear him talk to TSN yesterday? He was almost crying. He thought the future of his young family would be in Ottawa.

Oh I know he loved it here, and will always have ties to the city. And the city will always love him. But if he really wanted to be here, he would have signed. Obviously the outside factors (horrible ownership) trumped his desire to stay here. Would he have stayed here under different management? Probably. But under current management ( ), he didn't wanna be an Ottawa Senator. And I respect that.

Karlsson was crying during his press conference, Duchene during his media scrum, and Stone yesterday. So obviously Ottawa can't be THAT undesirable. But #MelnykOut

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

What an absolute steal by Vegas. One good prospect and a 2nd for a top 10 winger in the league signed long term.

Credit where credit is due, that is maximizing asset value.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Curious what Tallon's offer was to Ottawa was for Stone.

 

[PatrikBerglund]

Can’t wait to see what the return for Brannstrom, Tkachuk, and Chabot will be in a few years.

Brassard retained @ 45% & cond. 6th.

 

[Channelcat]

This is Filip Forberg 2.0 except times ten! As much as I want to rub salt in the wounds of Ottawa fans Dorian completely fleeced McPhee. By the sounds of it Stone was going to Vegas regardless, whether now or in the summer. Little by little GMGM will completely dismantle that franchise.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Can’t wait to see what the return for Brannstrom, Tkachuk, and Chabot will be in a few years.

“A future star”

 

[HockeyGuruPitka]

Obviously difficult to lose Mark Stone, but Getting a blue chip prospect for a pending UFA is massive for a rebuilding franchise. Hes get number 1 dman written all over him.

 

[CupInSIX]

Vegas is dumb. Brannstrom is a stud. Great trade OTT

Says the Flyers fan who thought his bluechip dmen would get them a Cup by now.

 

[gretskidoo]

Sens fan now a Vegas fan.

**** Melnyk.
**** Dorion.
**** the Ottawa Senators.

Will be cheering for Mark Stone in my Vegas Stone jersey for the next 8 years. Absolutely incredible. Vegas just got a SIGNED Stone for a rental price. Incredible.

No one is trading Brannstrom for any rental ever.

 

[SensFactor]

I don't know much about Brannstrom but what makes him a blue chipper?

 

[theslatcher]

I don't know much about Brannstrom but what makes him a blue chipper?

Excellent skating, competetiveness, shot, really impressive lower body strength, great offensive instincts, future captain material, defensively sound(at World Juniors he was Sweden's main PKer both this and last year, even when playing on the same team as Dahlin), etc. And his stats so far have been A+.

He was Chicago's PP QB since pretty much the get-go since coming into the AHL and has produced there. I'd expect him to get 9 NHL games with Ottawa this season, as to not make him eligible for the Seattle expansion draft, and then make the team out of camp.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Excellent skating, competetiveness, shot, really impressive lower body strength, great offensive instincts, future captain material, defensively sound(at World Juniors he was Sweden's main PKer both this and last year, even when playing on the same team as Dahlin), etc. And his stats so far have been A+.

He was Chicago's PP QB since pretty much the get-go since coming into the AHL and has produced there. I'd expect him to get 9 NHL games with Ottawa this season, as to not make him eligible for the Seattle expansion draft, and then make the team out of camp.

It's unfortunate there is no one to mentor him in Ottawa. Karlsson had Phillips and Methot. Ottawa is going to have to sign a veteran dman this offseason and actually spend money if they have any hope of developing their young players properly.

All things considered, Dorion did well this year. My only wishes would have been for a conditional pick if Duchene doesn't re-sign with Columbus and maybe a conditional 3rd/4th rounder if Dzingel does sign.

I'm not going to quit this team like others claim, but my apathy for the Sens is increasing. That's the last thing the organization should want from its fanbase.

 

[HanSolo]

What an absolute steal by Vegas. One good prospect and a 2nd for a top 10 winger in the league signed long term.

Credit where credit is due, that is maximizing asset value.

After the disaster that was acquiring Tatar and flipping him for Pacioretty, Vegas sure needed a move that did so.

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

What an absolute steal by Vegas. One good prospect and a 2nd for a top 10 winger in the league signed long term.

Credit where credit is due, that is maximizing asset value.

Crazy. I guarantee the Habs would have beat this if Dorian wasn't an idiot who refused to trade within the division.

 

[CupInSIX]

Crazy. I guarantee the Habs would have beat this if Dorian wasn't an idiot who refused to trade within the division.

Habs would have traded Kotkaniemi for Stone?

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

Habs would have traded Kotkaniemi for Stone?

Wat? Kotkaniemi is 18 and playing center in the NHL...

We could have given up Romanov or Brooks and a 1st plus others which would beat this package easily.