National Hockey League trade deadline: Jets acquire center Paul Stastny from Blues

Jets acquire Stastny from Blues for prospect, picks

Jets acquire Stastny from Blues for prospect, picks

Once Derick Brassard and Tomas Plekanec were off the board, the Jets looked elsewhere. It's been challenging to fairly evaluate Stastny's abilities as an on-ice contributor during his time in St. Louis because of what the Blues paid when he hit the open market in the summer of 2014. However, the team has lost six straight games and Stastny is an upcoming unrestricted free agent. "When you look at that roster, or playing against them for the 2-3 years, it's a team that plays a high-quality game, offensively a juggernaut". "You never know what might happen this late in the season". The likes of the Dallas Stars, the California teams, and even the Calgary Flames all have great things going for them, but they also all have flaws that can be exposed and taken advantage of. When a team like that has an interest, it means a lot. The Blues will retain 50 percent of his salary.

The return for Stastny is Winnipeg's 2018 first round pick, NCAA forward prospect Erik Foley and a conditional fourth round pick in 2020.

Nashville gave up its first-round draft pick this year, as well as forward Victor Ejdsell and a fourth-round pick, in exchange for Hartman and a fifth-round pick. "The 6'0", 185-pound forward won a gold medal with the United States at the 2017 World Junior Championships. He actually gave up a first-round draft choice!

"I was willing to not make any moves if I couldn't find that move that was the right fit". "We felt this was a tremendous fit for our organization on many different levels on both of these trades". Stastny is an outstanding faceoff player who plays well defensively and can score. The Sabres received a conditional first-round pick in 2019, a conditional fourth-round pick and prospect Dan O'Regan for Kane.

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Morrow, 25, was chosen in the first round (23 overall) of the 2011 and has some playoff experience, suiting up in five playoff games with the Boston Bruins last spring, while averaging more than 22 minutes of ice time per game.

Armstrong also has top prospects Jordan Kyrou (C), Jordan Schmaltz (D), Robert Thomas (C), Tage Thompson (C), Klim Kostin (RW) to use as currency at the trade dealine.

So had the Blues beaten Winnipeg on Friday and Nashville on Sunday instead of losing to them by 4-0 scores, Stastny might still be a Blue. "I still believe the mood in that locker room after we made that trade is still going to fight the last 18 or 19 games we have left here to make the playoffs and that's not going to change". "We've known that from the start of the year", said Ehlers. Over the past several games, Jets coach Paul Maurice has had Blake Wheeler and Kyle Connor on either side of Scheifele, Little between Perreault and Jack Roslovic and Andrew Copp centering the "third" unit with Laine and Ehlers.

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