Good pickup for Winnipeg. High asset price but also a good cap hit for three more seasons for what he provides. Their defense looks a heck of a lot better than any time in the last few seasons.
real winner: Sakic for getting Toews for the same price, insane steal
real loser: Seattle. Why didn't they take Dillon and make the same deal?
Different context. Isles were way against the cap in a way that Washington was not. Caps had more leverage here and Dillon had the kind of cost certainty that an RFA with arb rights did not.
I’ll admit it’s a bit of an overpay but I love this move for the Jets! This is exactly the type of guy we needed. Physical LHD who isn’t a liability defensively. Winnipeg’s not an easy sell to a lot of players so to get one with 3 years left at a reasonable AAV, I love it!
I’ll admit it’s a bit of an overpay but I love this move for the Jets! This is exactly the type of guy we needed. Physical LHD who isn’t a liability defensively. Winnipeg’s not an easy sell to a lot of players so to get one with 3 years left at a reasonable AAV, I love it!
I'm glad you're positive because someone has to be
Different context. Isles were way against the cap in a way that Washington was not. Caps had more leverage here and Dillon had the kind of cost certainty that an RFA with arb rights did not.
I agree but Toews was better and four years younger than Dillon at the time of trade last summer. Jets had a clear D need last summer too. Would've made a lot more sense to pull the trigger on the 2 2nds for Toews last summer instead of 2 2nds for Dillon now and made their team more competitive in the weak North this past year
This is a bit of an overpay but I think other teams know that Winnipeg is basically limited to being unable to sign anyone in free agency and can't trade for anyone with any kind of trade protection lol. The Jets reportedly tried to get Nate Schmidt to waive multiple times before pivoting for Dillon
Vitek Vanacek is pretty solid, so I honestly think it still makes sense
Vanacek is good but I would rather have those 2 2nds and made a slightly better deal for Ned than DET made (a 3rd and a 6th/7th). They'd have the better goalie and far more draft capital
Vitek Vanacek is pretty solid, so I honestly think it still makes sense
You could get a Vanecek like player for only a 2nd round pick.
So Francis play should have been drafting Dillon, flipping him for 2x2nd and drafting a goalie elsewere or getting one trading away one of the 2nd and keeping the other.
Washington gets more than what they gave to the Sharks for Dillon and they got 2 playoff runs with Dillon in his prime so it's hard to say they lost the trade.
Vancouver fans lose a team to trade Schmidt to in ACGMs.