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Originally Posted by buzzg
I'm sure my initial rage of trading Laine will calm down as PLD is good. A few thoughts on this trade:
- It didn't seem like Laine gave a hard trade request, but wanted that or more minutes. We'll probably never know how serious it was.
- WTF was the point of getting Stastny? We brought him in to play with Laine, and now shipped out Laine for another centre? So we either traded Laine for a third line centre, or we will be paying $7m USD for a third centre? Where does Lowry go?
- We have had no trouble scoring, we needed a defenceman.
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I think its a long term thing. Stastny is on a 1 year deal, is 35 and may not sign again next year
PLD is 22 and could be a future, legit 1C for the team when Scheif is older, in addition to being a 1B right now. He seems to really look forward to going to Winnipeg, his parents live there, and he balances the team out and there is a chance of signing long term on a more manageable deal
Laine might be a very rare talent, but centres like PLD dont grow on trees either, and that is what wins cups. With perfetti the Jets dont have to force him to play C and he could very well be a solid winger in the future
Lots of elements at play. Of course, we dont know the contract/asking price Laine was asking for