Claimed: RIG/SEA; S53 off-season [1/2]

[hedgehog337 3,480]

 

*My early days with the Riga Reign team*

 

 

I don't know if @Tagger reads my mind, but my today's article is about the trade that happened back in the S53 off-season, so thanks him for the updating the trade tracker. This trade could've been the most controversial in that off-season, but the deal between Stockholm and Seattle turned the attention away from my trade.

 

What happened? @Banackock had fun times with his team during S50-53 period when he was drafting team's future and competing. But all good things have to come to an end, especially when players suddenly are retiring from the VHL league and some members are becoming GM's. And it was no surprise when he decided to start from the scratch. First of all, he sent his Wolf and Pietro Maximoff to Stockholm which ended in a controversy between a couple of memebers. 30 minutes later, he made another deal: I won't be wrong if I'll will name that a weirdest trade in the S53 off-season. So here it is:

 

To

(S50) D - Guntis Petenis

 

To

S54 RIG 1st

 

So what was that? First of all, I took the Riga Reign team in the mid-S53 who was in rebuilding mode. So it would've made sense to keep the 4th pick. Instead, I just gave up the 4th pick for...470-480 TPE defenseman who had one season left before regression. Actually these talks about this trade were happening way before that off-season - Banackock revealed his selling plans somewhere after Bogdan Podarok's unexpected retirement so he was offering Petenis for that 4th pick. Somehow, but I agreed for that. My plan actually was to grab Petenis and sell him for even higher pick, likely to Helsinki. Looking back to this trade, I realize it was a silly idea and @Higgins showed exactly why I was wrong by his simple ''No thanks'' reply. Also:

 

On 2017.03.31. at 8:19 AM, Frank said:

Petenis a season away from depreciation, not sure Riga's gonna be able to salvage that pick down the road. 

 

Afterparty. I will explain why I put the Frank's quote, but first let's see what Seattle did with fourth pick.

 

4.  SEATTLE BEARS (from Riga): Aleksei Federov, 211 TPE

 

Smart move as Banackock was confident in himself and he was sure he won't go inactive and step down soon anytime soon, so he took his own defenseman. Aleksei Fedorov still plays for the Bears so there's nothing more to talk about. As for Riga:

 

Guntis Petenis managed to somehow win the Labatte, Slobodzian and Campble awards in same season and that was a good part. But the trade still looked weird as these awards only boosted my ego, not the team's future. So it was obvious I needed to make a somewhat proper rebuild and that resulted in this trade (S54 off-season):

 

To

S56 QUE 1st

 

To

(S50) D - Guntis Petenis

 

Frank was right, the late first round pick in a mediocre draft is worse than a lottery pick in a good draft. So it seemed like I completily lost in the previous trade, but not that fast folks! I didn't even save that pick. Instead, the VHL saw this trade (S55 off-season):

 

To

(S54) G - Marcus King

 

To 

S56 QUE 1st

S56 SEA 2nd

 

I decided to make a bold move and bring @Kendrick to Riga as I didn't want to wait for too long before making a push. We can say that I was lucky to get away with this cheap price just because @punkhippie overvalued the S56 draft and he's not fond of Kendrick himself, but it is what it is. Somehow I turned the negative into positive that is helping to make a playoff push. Also, that S56 QUE 1st pick turned into an inactive Aeschylus Jigglejawns CXXXVIII.

 

Who won? It's hard to say which team had more profits from that trade. It depends actually on Kendrick now:

 

*If he re-signs with Riga - I take a slight win here as I have a strong goalie for multiple seasons, but Seattle doesn't loses here either;

*If he doesn't re-signs with Riga - Banackock takes a slight win as he still has a strong defenceman to make a strong contender team in the future.

 

So we will see what happenes in the next off-season, but so far nobody lost from this trade.

 

That's it and I'm out.

 

 

6 TPE goes to Krīgars

[Gudnason 607]

Very nice insight. @Green

 

I'm not exactly sure I lost the King trade either now. There wasn't a lot of buyers, so I had to take what I could get. If Jigglejawns comes back to make another Hall of Fame caliber player, and/or Gloop turns out like Felipe Rodriguez or Daryl Dortch, I'm a happy camper

[Frank 4,886]

You win some, you lose some. Hopefully you learn. That's what GMing in the VHL is. Also trying to evaluate the strength of drafts is difficult especially one season in advance. 

[hedgehog337 3,480]

11 minutes ago, punkhippie said:

I'm not exactly sure I lost the King trade either now.

 

I'm not saying you lost in the last trade. I was just saying I brought a younger and better player/goalie to my team in exchange of an aging defenceman. And goalie is more important position too.

[eaglesfan036 4,585]

33 minutes ago, punkhippie said:

Very nice insight. @Green

 

I'm not exactly sure I lost the King trade either now. There wasn't a lot of buyers, so I had to take what I could get. If Jigglejawns comes back to make another Hall of Fame caliber player, and/or Gloop turns out like Felipe Rodriguez or Daryl Dortch, I'm a happy camper

you traded kendrick for two inactives

[hedgehog337 3,480]

3 minutes ago, eaglesfan036 said:

you traded kendrick for two inactives

 

@evrydayimbyfuglien might be kinda semi-active though.

[Fire Tortorella 2,653]

4 minutes ago, eaglesfan036 said:

you traded kendrick for two inactives

 

you just drafted an inactive with your 1st pick though???

[eaglesfan036 4,585]

1 minute ago, hedgehog337 said:

 

@evrydayimbyfuglien might be kinda semi-active though.

looks like punkhippie got him active for now so good move there by him i suppose

[eaglesfan036 4,585]

Just now, Fire Hakstol said:

 

you just drafted an inactive with your 1st pick though???

shhhh @Will will come back higgins knows where he lives

[evrydayimbyfuglien 600]

6 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

 

@evrydayimbyfuglien might be kinda semi-active though.

And a semi-active me is still better than a fully active @Kendrick.

[hedgehog337 3,480]

5 minutes ago, evrydayimbyfuglien said:

And a semi-active me is still better than a fully active @Kendrick.

 

[evrydayimbyfuglien 600]

2 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

 

Everyone should know I'm joking. 

[hedgehog337 3,480]

Just now, evrydayimbyfuglien said:

Everyone should know I'm joking. 

 

evrydayimjoking? I see.

[NotAVHLM-GM 1,858]

9 hours ago, punkhippie said:

Very nice insight. @Green

 

I'm not exactly sure I lost the King trade either now. There wasn't a lot of buyers, so I had to take what I could get. If Jigglejawns comes back to make another Hall of Fame caliber player, and/or Gloop turns out like Felipe Rodriguez or Daryl Dortch, I'm a happy camper

 

Thanks, I tried hard projecting my thoughts to hedgehog who wrote it all down

[Gudnason 607]

11 minutes ago, Green said:

 

Thanks, I tried hard projecting my thoughts to hedgehog who wrote it all down

 

The tag was because you said you thought these types were interesting lol

[NotAVHLM-GM 1,858]

3 hours ago, punkhippie said:

 

The tag was because you said you thought these types were interesting lol

 

Cheers for clearing that up, it looked like a response on the article at first, thanks for the tag in that case

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

Review

Nice article Hedgy. I love articles like this. It was well written my friend. Good to see how well you did after trading for Guntis and then trading him for King