Last night, those old trading partners Corfield & Kash hooked up again in a trade that will have short and long term effects for both the Musicmen and the Millers.
It's the kind of deal that the CCHL has seen since we started back in 2001. One team trades future assets to be better now to another team who wants to trade current value to be better later. In this deal, Dayton traded Alex Newhook-p, Owen Tippett-p, Elvis Merzlikins-p, Martin Fehervary-p, M. Benning & LAS 2nd-21 to GEO for R. Josi, P. Hornqvist, J. Carter & GEO 3rd-21...
What does Dayton get? In adding Josi, the 'Men upgrade their already solid and balanced blueline corp with a legit top #105 dman who - along with Kris Letang, Alex Edler, and Matt Niskanen - should help drive Dayton's offense in a positive direction. Dayton also welcomes vets Hornqvist and Carter, who Dayton didn't really want, but gives the Millers some serious payroll relief and helped get the deal done. The 3rd rounder is a small add given the amount of quality youth that has left Ohio in the last several days.
As we tried to assess why our offense wasn't performing earlier in the year, we identified our defense make as a possible culprit. Our blueline was highly proficient defensively but helping the offense in a meaningful way wasn't happening. Nor, should we have thought it could given the age and (lack of) skating ability we started the year with.
The Millers add a top ten draftee in Tippett, an exciting young center in Newhook who is adjusting very nicely to NCAA level competition, the 2nd highest rated netminder on Dobber's most recent goalie prospect rankings in Merzlikins, a young dman in Fehervary who is getting rave reviews in the AHL, a serviceable depth dman in Benning and a draft pick that has the potential to be a lottery pick in 2021.
Time will tell just how much a difference Josi will make for the Musicmen. He'll get to play with the
best players the team can put around him and we suspect his impact will be meaningful as we aim toward the playoffs.
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