Calling Strome a prospect is a massive stretch. He's slow as molasses, already 22 and going nowhere fast. Hogberg is only slightly more of a prospect. Also a bad skater, lacks strength and also already 22 with no NHL games in sight. What else ya got?

Cant disagree on Strome, make it Isaac Ratcliffe instead of Strome or Mason Millman instead of Hogberg, (although Hogberg in his first yr in NA, was solid, just buried at LD behind York and Zamula)

1- Better obviously, but still another frightfully slow 22-year-old
2- Again, probably a little better, but still a skinny LD (at least he has more time to add some strength.
3- Heh. And in St. Louis, he'd be behind about six guys. Sending the Blues meh LDs is not going to get ya much, aside from goalie prospects that's just about the last thing they need.

Final analysis: I think subbing Wade Allison in for those two prospect slots would probably make this fly.