Seattle now has a surplus of overagers after Greg Scott was returned to them from the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. One of Derek LeBlanc, Chris Cloud, or Jared Jagow is going to have to be sent elsewhere now. I would think Jagow might be the odd man out there but if they're looking to trade one, then LeBlanc or Cloud would have more trade value.
Getting Scott back is a pretty big boost for the Birds, who are off to a terrible 1-5 start this season and have managed only 13 goals in 6 games. Getting back Scott, who was a point-a-game player last year and the team's 2nd leading scorer, is going to be a big help in that area.
And the more I think about it, the more I don't understand why Chilliwack traded for Evan Fuller and Brett Ward. A lot of G.M.'s use a rule of thumb that if an overager can't be your #1 goalie, top-4 defenceman, or top-6 forward, he's probably not worth keeping on the team because you can always find 16, 17, 18 year olds with the ability to be backup goalies, depth defencemen, or checking forwards, and those guys usually have future upside that 20 year olds do not. Well, I would suggest that Ward and Fuller could not meet those top-4 and top-6 criteria on many (most?) of the teams in the league. For that matter, neither could Partik Bhungal, Chilliwack's third overager. Why are they going with sub-par overagers when there's better options out there? They just gave up an 18 year old forward and two mid-round draft picks for Ward & Fuller, so it's not like those guys were dirt cheap.
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