At least Donato has been unreal

I have a feeling Fiala might be, too. Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but Fiala's advanced stats are incredibly good and I've been watching film on him and I like what I see a lot. The guy can fly out there.

Nino for a player who was gonna get bought-out, Granlund for the far inferior Fiala, and possibly the dumbest first round draft pick I’ve ever seen. If I was a Wild fan, I’d be absolutely seething.

Flahr ran the draft, not Fenton (Flahr was our previous assistant GM) so the Filip Johansson pick was his, not Fenton's. Plus, we don't know how good Johansson will be. He could be awful, but he could also be great. Time will tell. Nino was playing on our 4th line and wasn't giving any effort for us. We tried many times to put him in the top 6 and even gave him top line minutes but he just did not look good. Fenton saw an opportunity for a previous 20g scoring center and he took it. He must not have scouted Rask because Rask is awful. You failed to mention the Coyle for Donato trade, which looks like a great one for us. Fiala for Granlund had me pissed off earlier, but as I delve into the player that Fiala is, I'm becoming less and less mad about it. Here's some interesting bits of info from a previous comment that has me excited about Fiala:

Fiala is 22, Granlund is 27 tomorrow
Fiala is a RFA, Granny only had 2 years remaining before he'll want $8-9M (according to Russo, he was going to ask for this kind of money for his next contract).
In Fiala's first full NHL season, he scored 23 goals. Granlund scored 13. Note: Fiala averaged 15 minutes per game while Granlund averaged 18.
Fiala is more of a shooter (kind of coincides with my last point) and is extremely dangerous 1 on 1
Fiala is a much better skater than Granlund
Fiala has been amazing at even strength, scoring 19/23 and 9/10 goals during even strength last year and this year, respectively.
Fiala's Corsica and Fenwick are insanely good: 55.0% CF over career and 53.6% CF this year (in a slumping year) and 54.7% FF over career and 53.4% FF this year. Compared to Granlunds 50.0% CF career 52.4% CF this year and 50.6% FF career and 53.3% FF this year
Fiala's heatmap is very good. To sum it up, he's better than Granlund at 5v5 but slightly weaker at 5v4.
Fiala still has room to grow, Granlund has probably hit his ceiling.
Fiala's contract extension will be very reasonable.

It hurts now, but I think he could be better than Granlund in the future. Get him a good center that can make plays and I think we have ourselves a player. Here's his heatmap:

Mikael Granlund (to Nasvhille) is very good offensively at both 5v5 and 5v4, a decent shot, a good penalty killer, with a good penalty differential, and ok defensively. Keven Fiala (to Minnesota) is better offensively at 5v5 and slightly weaker at 5v4 but otherwise similar. pic.twitter.com/9PYMqXDt0S

— Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath) February 25, 2019

I really enjoy watching the Preds play so I watch them quite a bit and I am a big Fiala fan too I think he fell out of favour with the coach though. I wouldn’t write him off . Nashville also may not be able to afford Granlund after next year