How about Marat Khusnutdinov and a 2nd round pick for Jesper Bratt? Seems like a fair deal to me👍🏽

Agreed

Let’s do it, sign me up. We can trade Fiala to Ottawa and replace him with Bratt at a cheaper salary. You’ll enjoy Khusnutdinov 3-4 years from now and the 2nd round pick may or may not make the NHL, don’t worry though, a player like Jesper Bratt comes around basically every week at this point. It should be really easy for you guys to replace him.

Exactly. Good call brother!

I asked #NJDevils Tom Fitzgerald about Bratt’s RFA status and a potential offer sheet. Says he cant control what other teams do but “he’s a big part of our future. He's a tremendous young player. We want Jesper here long term. That's my job, to work out a deal with his agent."

— Amanda Stein (@amandacstein) May 5, 2022

Wild GM Bill Guerin talking about fans wanting to keep Fiala over Dumba on a recent podcast.“I like Matt Dumba. I think he’s a damn good defenseman, and people want to write him out of town just because Kevin Fiala had three good months.”

— James (@PositiveSensFan) May 25, 2022

There seems to be a major difference between Fiala and Bratt

Only difference I see here is 1 gm commending a player and another GM defending a player.

exactly. only difference between these two.

There's ways to defend a player without bashing another player

In what way did he bash Fiala? In fact he said Kevin had 3 good months lol. If you listened to the full segment you’d understand that conversation had way more to do with Guerin being pissed off that people were hating on Dumba than it had to do with Fiala. Guerin also mentioned yesterday on Michael Russo’s podcast that Fiala had a great season and would be hard to replace if he were to be traded. Y’all ain’t ready to hear that though because it doesn’t help your case.

You thought you did something here didn’t you😂

No I was agreeing with you. The Devils are in the exact same situation with Bratt as the Wild with Fiala. You're correct

That’s not what I was saying whatsoever

Oh sorry. So the Marat Khusnutdinov and a 2nd round pick deal is off now?

We’re not even talking about that anymore. I was talking about the GMs comments on Bratt and Fiala.

darn.

Saying he didn't show up in the playoffs and only had 3 good months.
I listened to the segment. He was mainly defending Dumba but he also trashed on Fiala.

He trashed half the team, and deservedly so. When half the team disappears in the playoffs they deserve to be called out. Whether it be by the coach, GM, or fans.

You read Russo today?