Funny, considering the Winterhawks were saying in the paper yesterday that they wouldn't be giving up kids for a rental player. And yet they've acquired the day's biggest rental player of all so far.
Luca Sbisa, Lethbridge's 2010 first round import pick, and a 2011 5th round bantam pick to Portland for 17 year old defenceman Daniel Johnston, 18 year old import forward Jacob Berglund, and Portland's 2010 first round import pick.
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The key here is Portland swapped import picks with the Canes. With the Canes sitting near the bottom of the league, it should be a top 10-15 pick while Portland's would've been more like 40-50. Thus, Berglund (who was the 64th import pick this year) is expendable because he's a fourth-liner now.
Johnston is a good young d-man, but kind of the odd-man out. I think they want to get the '93 Wotherspoon on the ice more, and there are a lot more d-men coming up through the system.
All in all, the Hawks didn't give up that much here. Certainly nobody in their top 12 skaters currently.
yeah i agree portland stole this one and will have a top euro next year as they seem to have good contacts and when you look at what brandon paid for hamonic same situation lethbridge got robbed
You can't compare the trades of Hamonic and Sbisa though. Apart from the fact that they are both amongst the best 19 year old defencemen in the WHL, their situations have nothing in common.
Sbisa is an import and that severely limits the teams that would want him or could take him. For example, Brandon would not have been interested in Sbisa because acquiring Sbisa would have meant they'd have to move out one of their existing two imports - who are also very good players. So the price for Sbisa was forced lower because of that pesky import label.
Hamonic had no such restrictions. Everyone in the league could have picked him up and the fact that Brandon paid such a massive price for him would indicate that there was at least one and possibly more teams bidding against Brandon for his services. I'm thinking Saskatoon and Regina for sure were on that shortlist.
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The key here is Portland swapped import picks with the Canes. With the Canes sitting near the bottom of the league, it should be a top 10-15 pick while Portland's would've been more like 40-50. Thus, Berglund (who was the 64th import pick this year) is expendable because he's a fourth-liner now.
Johnston is a good young d-man, but kind of the odd-man out. I think they want to get the '93 Wotherspoon on the ice more, and there are a lot more d-men coming up through the system.
All in all, the Hawks didn't give up that much here. Certainly nobody in their top 12 skaters currently.
yeah i agree portland stole this one and will have a top euro next year as they seem to have good contacts and when you look at what brandon paid for hamonic same situation lethbridge got robbed
You can't compare the trades of Hamonic and Sbisa though. Apart from the fact that they are both amongst the best 19 year old defencemen in the WHL, their situations have nothing in common.
Sbisa is an import and that severely limits the teams that would want him or could take him. For example, Brandon would not have been interested in Sbisa because acquiring Sbisa would have meant they'd have to move out one of their existing two imports - who are also very good players. So the price for Sbisa was forced lower because of that pesky import label.
Hamonic had no such restrictions. Everyone in the league could have picked him up and the fact that Brandon paid such a massive price for him would indicate that there was at least one and possibly more teams bidding against Brandon for his services. I'm thinking Saskatoon and Regina for sure were on that shortlist.
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