Phoenix/Vancouver Trade

[mutski]

To Phoenix:

Mattias Ohlund
Trevor Linden
Marek Malik
Alexander Edler
van 2nd 06

www.hockeysfuture.com/prospect/alexander_edler

To Vancouver:

Simon Gagne
Andy Rogers
Arsi Piispanen
pho 1st 05
bos 3rd 05

Again Van Gets alot of youth and this trade sorts out our D!!!

[alexmasson]

Vancouver ask to pls consider this deal altought it might seem like Vancouver is getting the short end of the stick let me explain this one.
First off what we are giving away:
Linden: is in the last year of a contract that we don't want to renew so trading him at this point was our best option to ensure that we don't just lose him.

Ohlund: Is a good 27 y old D-men ranked at 78 wich is good but not a top D in the league (comparable in talent to a Eric Brewer nthing more really)

Marek Malik: was a dependable vet btu we have a player or 2 in the minors that rank just as good as he does but are 7 years younger (we need to make some space for all that youth we are aquiring)

Alex Edler(spect): Alex as greatly improved this year but the trouble of creating him in the 2 year made that we had to trade him for an equivalent spect but that was already created.

Van 2nd round pick 06: with 2 1st round pick in 06 we felt we could trade this pick away with no problem specially since it was nescessary to aquire pho 1st 05

Now what we are getting in return:

Gagner: despite popular believe gagner is one of the top young lw players in the league at only 23 he is ranked at 75 and we have a shortage of LW on our team (plus the owner loves the kid for having seen play since his JR years in the Q, doesn't hurt that he as a knack for scoring timely goals despite a bad year last year we have faith in him).

Piispanen: In this young player we get a good young center with a good offensive up side that we can pair up with gagner and and eric Fehr we find that this youngster will addequatly replace linden on our second line and will be with us for many years to come.

Andy Roger: Is a great 19 year old D-Men that mesure 6'5 and still as time to fill up. Rogers is a bit better Edler and the same age plus he is already created wich in our situation is a great deal.

Boston 3rd: Now according to our scouts we could still find a 71 to 72 rated player in the 3rd round with Boston pick wich is already better then any young players in this trade.

Pho 1st 05: All players to be drafted in this year 1st round are already 74 or better wich is comparable to Ovechkin and Malkin ... Taking that in considerationwe are more then happy with this trade wich will give us 3 1st round choice.

the way i see it is like this Edler for Roger (but we don't need to create the spec) (Equal)

Linden and malik for piispanen and 3rd (adv pho)

Ohlun and 2dn for Gagner and 1st (adv Van despite poular believe but if you take in consideration the quality of 1st let say Gagner and ovechkin for ohlund and a 2nd i think adv Van)

Plus we something out of linden who would have quit us at the end of the year.

Thank you for taking serious consideration of our explanation and for staying polite if you disagree with our assessment.

Vancouver management

[blkhawk]

if the canucks 2nd wasnt in it id pass it least you got something to work with here denied for now

[mutski]

okey take out the 2nd!!

[blkhawk]

trade accepted