Claimed:Advantage's Trade Review - Edition #2 [Final 6/6]

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Advantage's Trade Review - Edition #2

 

 

Last week, I looked at two pretty interesting trades to start off my time as General Manager of the New York Americans.  One saw me acquire a future Hall of Fame goaltender in Alexander Labatte and another saw me move a veteran defender for some depth and a pick that would become an all-star winger in Thomas Landry.  This week we will look at one trade that sparked my last run before what would turn out to be a pretty short rebuild, and the first trade that kicked off my youth invasion in the season thirty-four off-season.  

 

Season 33 Off-Season Trade -> NYA/DAV

 

To 
(S27) C - Phil Rafter
(S27) LW - David Smalling

To 
(S27) C - Alexander Chershenko
(S30) LW - Henrik Larsson
S34 TOR 2nd (RW Aelred Leskowsky)
S35 COL 3rd (LW `Reficul 1134)
 

Going into the Season 33 off-season I really did not expect to be trading Alexander Chershenko.  However, with the GM situation dwindling in Davos, Victor Alfredsson told me that he wanted to manage the Dynamo and that a trade needs to be put in place.  At first it was going to just be Phil Rafter for Chershenko, but I was not thrilled with the move.  In my opinion, seeing that Phil wasn’t around as much, I was losing some value in the locker room.  I wanted David Smalling as well and once I added a solid depth forward in Larsson and a few other picks, the transaction was complete.

 

While we would not win the Continental Cup in Season 34, the New York Americans were still a very successful team that season with Smalling and Rafter leading the way offensively.  Chershenko would get shipped off to Calgary for a first and a couple second round picks to help start the Dynamo rebuild (unfortunately these picks amounted to nothing).  Admittedly, I really did not want to make this trade at first, but once I realized I was getting both Knight brother's, it was pretty easy to swallow.

 

Looking back, I really like this trade value wise.  Alexander Chershenko was the best player in the trade, but the two Knight brothers combined surpass Chershenko's value and very little was moved in addition to the Russian center.  I wish the team could have won the Continental Cup that season, but I do think that team was better than if I kept Chershenko.

 

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Season 34 Off-Season Trade -> NYA/DAV

 

 

To 
S36 QUE 1st (D David Januzaj)
S35 CGY 2nd (RW Carter Deaton)
S36 DAV 2nd (D Herman Mudgett)
S37 DAV 2nd (C Kez Kincaid)

To 
(S33) RW - Thomas Landry

 

This one is still a pretty tough one for me to look at.  When I drafted Thomas Landry in Season 33, many were really not giving him a chance.  He was a second round pick who had just started recently showing up again after being inactive.  However, I had a lot of familiarity with Doomsday and knew I could keep him around and active.  Sure enough, he ended up proving me right by having a fantastic career that probably falls into the Hall of Very Good category.

 

When I decided to enter my rebuild, I knew I had to move off as much as possible.  My big debate was whether or not that should include Thomas Landry.  I considered keeping him because he was potentially young enough for my rebuild, but also did not want to keep him on a struggling team for a lot of his career.  To be honest, I really did not expect my rebuild to be over with so quickly and therefore thought it was best to get more assets for Landry.

 

Looking at things without hindsight, I didn’t really think a first round pick and three second round picks was awful value for a solid, albeit a bit behind, season thirty-three draftee.  However, Landry would continue to develop and Davos would win the cup in season thirty-five.  The draft also was not very strong after the first five or six picks, and all I was left with was David Januzaj, who would become a sub-200 TPE depth player in the Victory Hockey League.  The second’s didn’t turn up much, although one of them would be traded away and later used to draft depth forward Kez Kincaid.

 

It is safe to say that I regret moving Thomas Landry.  With hindsight I would have kept him and teamed him up with Tordahl, but instead I moved him for far less than what he was worth in what I still consider my worst trade in VHL history.

[Victor 10,943]

Yeah NY I think we're my picks to win the cup or at least North America that season. That Calgary came within one game of winning the cup with Chershenko was ridiculous and couldn't have been foreseen on paper.

And hey, one of those meh picks I got for Chershenko was used in the Landry trade.

And who knows, maybe if you kept Landry you wouldn't have had cap to sign Kellinger or had to trade some core player.

[BOOM 8,753]

My god, such a terrible trader Chris.

[Munk 1,298]

Y is slenderman in ur articles

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

Content: 3/3 - Great summary of the two trades. Only thing to note is that Davos didn't win in Season 35, it was actually 36.

Grammar: 2/2 - Didn't spot anything at all. Great work.

Appearance: 1/1 - Good!

Overall: 6/6

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