Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan
How do you know that though?
How do I know that Jost is going to get traded?
Well for starters he's clearly the odd man out on our current roster, given that he's been scratched in 2 of 3 round robin games.
That isn't really a slight on him though per se, because we have one of the deepest forward groups in the league. Until we acquired Namestnikov at the deadline Jost was easily a 3rd liner for us. He's also better than Nieto in a vacuum, but Nieto seems to mesh better with Bellemare and Calvert on the 4th line.
Looking ahead, if we add a top 6 forward this offseason then it's Jost who's the obvious odd-man out to get upgraded.
That said, I highly doubt that Sakic would move him unless we get fair value in a trade for him. He's a young, cheap, and defensively reliable 3rd liner with potential to find more offense than he has done so far. It's not unfathomable that he could break out at age 23 if given more of an opportunity in a scoring role, as he's shown flashes of that in last years playoffs as well as pre-lockdown with 7 points in 9 games when we had a few injuries and he got some more minutes.
If we don't get a 2nd + 3rd (or better) offer I think we'd be more than happy to just resign him at a cheap caphit and keep him around. His positional versatility; reliability with the puck and defensively; and ability to play in all situations makes him the perfect 'swiss army knife' depth forward to have, so we won't be in a rush to trade him if there aren't any good offers.