Quoting: TMLBRIAN
Minten is a stud. He was just captain of team Canada at the WJC. Niemela won WJC dman of the tourny in 2021 and is having a great year in the AHL and a 1st round pick and a 3rd.
This is a very big package.
Leafs pass on this though.
Quoting: RipNasty
In a shocking turn of events, a Habs fan comes out of the blue to say two highly touted Leaf prospects are not good despite literally everyone in the hockey world saying otherwise.
Niemela is looking like a 5-6 dman at this point
Minten is good but is still only projected to be a middle six winger, not elite and sadly will likely go down as one of the worst captains that team Canada has ever had.
Neither is ranked in the top 50 prospects and neither is considered to have elite (top line potential) potential.
Your 1st will only have a 50% chance of even playing in the league and even less of a chance of becoming elite. And Samsonov is in this deal, who as I'm writing this is playing like a cap dump, not considered one yet but any trade negotiations for him right now won't be positive.
It's a big pile of maybes and pretty goods, no elites and Nashville turns it down pretty easily. It also gets beat pretty easily by another team