Quoting: BeterChiarelli
The Coyotes need NHL forwards worse than they need more defensemen. Panik might be a better starting price, and I think they'd want a B-prospect instead of a 5th. Johansen?
Quoting: Shootica
I think there would be two issues here for the Yotes. One, they have a lot of defense depth as it is so I don't know how useful Jensen would be unless they move one of their lefties. Two, this doesn't save them very much cash and actually ties them to more money moving forward.
Maybe the 2nd is enough to outweigh these thinks, I'm not sure. But just food for thought.
I'm mystified by these two comments. Arizona has 7 defensemen under contract for this season and 5 of them are UFAs (Hjalmarsson, Goligoski, Demers, Oesterle and Lyubushkin), three of whom are, to put it charitably, are on the downside of their careers. In fact, right now the Coyotes don't have a qualifying defenseman that they wouldn't protect for the expansion draft. Moreover, Arizona has only one prospect defenseman on each side projected to be NHL material (Capobianco, LD and Soderstrom, RD). So they can't be said to "have a lot of defense depth" -- to the contrary, even under the best of circumstances (i.e., both prospects develop well enough to make the roster next year), Arizona only has 4 defensemen set for 2021-2022 and would have to resign at least one of the veterans in addition to both Oestrle and Lyubushkin or else go outside the organization to ice 7 blue-liners next season.
I think that this trade is brilliant. My only criticism is that I think that given their draft dance card, Arizona would hold out for a 2021 second and I think Washington would give it to them.
Great vision on this one.
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