VHL Trade Wars: Edition 6 (Season 60 Off-Season)

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VHL Trade Wars: Edition 6 (Season 60 Off-Season)

 

 

SEASON 60 OFF-SEASON

To NYA

F - David Kiaskov @Exlaxchronicles

 

To QUE

S62 NYA 1st Round Pick (F - Vesto Slipher) @Hybrid1486

S61 RIG 2nd Round Pick (D - Alvara Jokinen) @Ahma

 

General Managers: @Spade18 (New York), @Beaviss (Quebec)

 

Date: June 6th, 2018

 

 

This is the sixth edition of the VHL Trade Wars, and I am your host Advantage, here to bring you another trade breakdown.  This week will see us looking at a trade between the New York Americans and the Quebec City Meute that involved two picks and a player that carved out quite a productive career at multiple positions.  Who takes the cake in this one? Lets take a look.

 

This trade saw the New York Americans trading for a hot and upcoming forward that was coming off a 76 point and 211 hit season in David Kiaskov, but it wouldn't be cheap as they had to move two picks to do it, including a S62 1st Round Pick.  Kiaskov would go on to have a very productive six year VHL career with 429 points, 1258 hits and 414 blocked shots over 432 career games, split between forward and defense.  

 

There wasn't a ton of initial response regarding the move with most of the reaction heard via podcasts and interviews being from Kiaskov himself who was really excited to play a role in potentially winning a Continental Cup.  There also was some reported excitement coming from GM Beaviss himself who at one point did think that the first round pick they had acquired was potentially going to be a higher pick in the first round.  Ultimately it did end up ending up as the seventh pick though so the Americans did escape a complete disaster there.

 

With that being said though, the Americans only had Kiaskov for one season as they would move him to Davos the next off-season to recoup a 1st round draft pick.  He had a pretty successful season too with 76 points and 218 hits in 72 games and had an even more brilliant playoff run with 20 points and 27 hits in 11 playoff games, but would ultimately fall short of a Continental Cup victory.

 

The Quebec City Meute were looking to get a bit younger and while Kiaskov wasn't necessarily old, he was likely not really fitting the age group that Quebec City was looking to build around, and valuable assets do mean valuable returns.  Quebec would acquire a first round pick that had the potential of ending up in the lottery and a second round pick that had the chance to become a solid addition with how deep the draft was rumored to be.

 

That first round pick would end up at fifth overall and would see Quebec select Vesto Slipher, a player representing the well-known veteran Hybrid agency.  Slipher was a well-rounded and fairly disciplined winger but would play just four seasons in the VHL prior to retiring.  Slipher played two of those seasons in Quebec and finished his career with 243 career points in 288 games.  

 

The interesting part of this deal may revolve around Alvara Jokinen, who was linked to the successful Ahma agency.  That being said, as many know, Ahma generally only likes his players to play on Davos, so having him as a member of a different team adds an interesting wrinkle to this move.  I honestly can't remember if a big stink came out of it or not, but Jokinen would get moved to Davos prior to him making it to the VHL and he would go on to play 432 career games and record 320 points as a defenseman over that span.  

 

Verdict: Winner – Draw: Tough one but I lean to a draw.  Both got players that ultimately would either play no seasons with their team or played very few, and I feel like both got something of value out of it as well.  New York acquired a player that was really starting to improve considerably and had already hit the point per game mark in the VHL and while he only played a season in New York, he also had an incredible campaign including a dominant playoff performance.  Ultimately New York traded a 2nd round pick for one season of Kiaskov, as they would recoup that pick the very next season.  While I know I don't typically judge that way, this trade has some similar ties.  Quebec would acquire two picks and brought in two prospects that would ultimately end up having good careers.  With that being said, Slipher didn't have the longevity and only played a couple years on Quebec, while Jokinen likely forced a deal to Davos.  That being said, with Quebec having the ability to recoup assets on those moves, I feel like value wise this is still solid for them.  Makes this a pretty even trade in my book.

 

 

 

[Ahma 1,451]

tbh i dont even remember this trade or being traded as Alvaro lol

[Spade18 1,309]

HNNNGGG BACK IN THE GLORY DAYYSSSS