I have a feeling it's gonna be a little out of our price range

Well let's think about this. You want ek as your teams 3rd best center. On minny he's by far their best center. He's worth way more to minny than any gm would pay unless minny went full rebuild. Minny needs centers more than pretty much any team in the league and has had that same need for years. So unless they can make a package for Pettersson, it's not gonna happen

In all honesty.

He'd only get moved if Petey WAS on the table. Even then I'd have my doubts, given we would be looking to make a 1-2 punch of the two down the middle on our end. So it wouldn't work from either side. The Wild aren't giving up JEE unless Petey was coming back the other way, and Vancouver isn't moving Petey period.

As for Hughes. He's a great player and untouchable on Vancouver's end, but I can't see Minnesota consider moving Eriksson-Ek for him regardless.

Very unconstructive comment. Thanks for your input.

Says the guy making an acgm that should be a forum post. Nice.

Stick to your forums pal.

That was one of the most constructive comments I've seen on this website.

Not moving JEE for Hughes would certainly be a decision because you could get like 3 JEE with the value of trading Hughes

Not sure what you were expecting for an answer. There clearly isn't a deal to be made that makes sense for either team.

I don't know why people make these threads but let's call it 2023 1st + 2024 1st + Lekkerimaki + Raty as a start

A 3rd team would need to be involved

You can say that. But the reasoning why Minnesota wouldn't was pretty elaborately stated by @SociallyHawkward. We aren't moving our best center when the team desperately needs them. His value to Minnesota is going to be damn near equivalent to what Vancouver would ask for Hughes. It may be crazy, and no GM would be willing to give up that kind of asking price. But that's kinda the point.

Furthermore, Hughes is not a need. As good as he is. He's more or less a glorified much much much better version of Addison. Who Minnesota is looking to move on from. He's an offensive defenseman who doesn't play defense. Which is fundamental foundational hockey in Minnesota, in short its the bottom line expectation for defenseman.

Then there's the question of who he replaces in Minnesota's top 4. As Hughes is a LHD, that means either Brodin or Middleton.

Well, Brodin is arguably the best shutdown defenseman in the league and Minnesota's current #1D. He's going to get the most action because of it.

There isn't a debate to be had as to who is better between Hughes and Middleton. It's obviously Hughes. But if Hughes replaces Middleton in our top 4, that means he's playing with Spurgeon. All 5'8" 165 lbs of him. Without question, Spurgeon can cover for Hughes defensively. But putting two sub 6' defenseman together is asking for trouble.

Hughes wether he's a good player or not. Outstrips Eriksson-Ek's value or not. He is not worth 1 JEE let alone 3 to Minnesota.

Why would van ever trade Hughes, they finally just got a 2nd top 4 d-man, why trade one of them now?