A BIG DAY OF TRADES FOR THE MUSICMEN...

AP SPORTS - Dayton, OH

DATE: 10/21/2017

HEADLINE: DAY MAKES TWO TRADES FOR PROSPECTS/PICKS...

Two trades to report...

1) HAL trades M. DelZotto, L. Sbisa, T. Pulkkinen, Yakov Trenin-p, Christian Djoos-p, Sam Lafferty-p, Keaton Middleton-p, POR 3rd-18, HAL 6TH-18, HAL 7TH-18, HAL 8TH-18, HAL 9TH-18, HAL 10TH-18, 11TH-18 AND HAL 12TH-18 to DAY for $5M...

2) DAY trades J. Guentzel to MIN for B. Dumoulin, Luke Kunin-p, Robert Hagg-p, MIN 6th-19, MIN 10th-19, MIN 11th-19 & MIN 12th-19...

3) DAY trades B. Dumoulin to LAS for SIB 4th-18 & LAS 6th-18...

The first deal was a salary dump for the financially strapped Halifax Hammerheads. Between the salary relief Dayton provided by taking DelZotto, Sbisa and Pulkkinen (which amounts to about $12,000,000) plus the $5,000,000 Dayton sent the Hammerheads dramatically helps the finances in Halifax.

In return, the Musicmen obtained prospects center Yakov Trenin, a 2nd round pick in 2015 for Nashville. Defenseman Christian Djoos, a 7th round pick from the '12 draft is at age 23, getting regular shifts for Washington and 2nd among D in scoring so far on the young NHL season. Pittsburgh prospect Sam Lafferty, a Senior at Brown University, who was a Hobey Baker nominee in his Junior season and Keaton Middleton, a 4th rounder dman for Toronto.

Dayton also got eight mid and late round draft picks from Halifax's next two drafts.

The second deal of the day saw Dayton ship Jake Guentzel to the Norsemen for dman Brian Doumolin and prospects Luke Kunin, a center and former 15th overall pick in 2016 for Minnesota and Robert Hagg, a defenseman for the Flyers in the NHL at just 22 years old. Hagg was a 2nd round pick in the 2013 draft. Hagg has just been promoted to the Flyer's top D pairing with Ivan Provorov.

Dayton acquired four more draft picks from the Norsemen, a 6th, 10th, 11th & 12th from the 2019 CCHL draft.

The third and final trade saw Dayton move Doumolin to Siberia for two more picks, a 4th and a 6th rounder, both in the 2018 CCHL Draft.

To recap...

From the two deals swung today, Dayton acquired:

Three current NHL-ers (DelZotto, Sbisa & Dumoulin...)
One AHL-er (Pulkkinen- BTW, currently leading the AHL in scoring)
Six prospects (Trenin, Djoos, Lafferty, Middleton, Kunin and Hagg)
Ten picks in the 2018 CCHL Entry Draft
Four picks in the 2019 CCHL Entry Draft