Trader Sam has returned after a very long hiatus. I know you are probably wondering where your favorite (and only) trade reviewer has been for almost a year and it's a long story.
I've actually spent the last year trying to acquire the materials to make President Trump's wall along the Mexican border. Then he sent me to acquire a book called NAFTA Negotiations for Dummies, and lastly the last few weeks I've been searching for an umbrella so our faithful leader can actually attend events when it rains. He's kept me pretty darn busy!
With that being said, I'm finally on a bit of a presidential hiatus and I'm back digging into the latest and greatest trade activity in the CCHL.
Let's review a few, shall we?
(11/17/18) VIC trades E. Kuznetsov to DAY for Andrei Svechnikov-p, Filip Chytil-p, Max Comtois-p, & Dennis Cholowski-p...
Look at this deal folks! Sam's first deal to review is a massive blockbuster between a surprising Dayton team and Victoria.
Dayton continues to find itself ahead of their own timeline which has GM Bill Corfield making moves to try to win now. He could have had a great future with the likes of Dahlin and Svechnikov but the team finds themselves in a window to win now suddenly.
Kuznetsov is still in his mid-20's and will contribute for years while Victoria finds themselves receiving 4 great young players that will help, starting next year and for the next decade.
Sam likes this deal a lot for both teams though he does feel perhaps Corfield may have slightly overpaid for the dirty bird in Kuznetsov.
(11/17/18) FOR trades C. Giroux to CAP for A. Beauvillier, Quinn Hughes-P & LAS 1st-19...
Giroux moves to the upstart Loons in a deal that is predicated all on Fort Erie's month-long struggle and the Loons surprising start to the year.
Giroux has been great for Fort Erie but dealing him allows Young to change the culture on his hockey club in order to have others step up without the big 100 point man around.
Beauvillier is a solid young player that should score 20 goals or more for a decade while Hughes is another piece to add to the solid future on the blueline.
It's a good deal for both teams at this point given where each has been headed in the standings. Time will tell how it works out in Fort Erie while Capeside gets a bonafide top player to help them in their surprising quest for a cup this season.
(11/17/18) MIN trades T. Wilson & MIN 8th-19 to DRT for N. Bjugstad...
Does anyone like Tom Wilson more than Dartmouth? Wilson heads back to the East Coast of Canada in a deal that sees Bjugstad return to Minnesota.
This deal is actually the complete return of the deal they made back on September 19th and both parties must have realized the earlier deal was a bit of a mistake and have corrected their errors.
Either that or they both like the guys they dealt too much for their own good. It's an interesting deal in that you don't see teams move players back to each other just two months later very often.
(11/04/18) CAP trades FOR 3rd-20 & CAP 6th-20 to SIB for D. Sedin & SIB 5th-20...
CAP continues to improve adding the legendary Daniel Sedin for his run this season in what is Sedin's last CCHL season.
Sedin is still a top-six forward in the league and playing on a cheap contract of fewer than one million dollars.
The cost of draft picks isn't significant in that you can always replace a 3rd and a 6th rounder but you can't always add a player of Sedin's pedigree at that cost.
The deal makes sense for Siberia as Sedin was the odd man out and at his advanced age, he just wasn't able to play at the pace that the McDavid-led IceCats typically like to play at.
Well, there's my first four deals of the year reviewed. I hope I've knocked the rust off now and that the president can stay out of some Stormy (Daniels) trouble so I can continue to review the CCHL trade activity in a more frequent manner.
Thanks for reading everyone and remember to keep trading because without the trades I'm just Sam, not Trader Sam.
Have a good one!
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