Secondly, I love this trade because of Nill’s willingness to take a risk on a player that potentially has “a high ceiling”. The 28th overall pick from the 2018 draft is viewed by Stars management as having “a high ceiling”. Lundkvist immediately improves the defensive depth in the present, near future, and far future. First off, the Stars’ defensemen prospect depth was definitely scarce compared with their forwards and that was seen in this year’s draft with drafting a defenseman with every pick except for two (one forward and one goalie). However, especially right now, I’m leaning towards the second school of thought on the Lundkvist trade. In the NHL, he managed 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points in 25 NHL games while getting 3 goals and 12 assists for 15 points in 34 AHL games. He split time between the NHL and the AHL last season with the Rangers and the Hartford Wolf Pack. To add on to this, Nils Lundkvist has not shown that he’s an every day NHL player just yet. First off, how on EARTH could Nill offer up a 1st round pick for Lundkvist when Nill he knows Lundkvist has requested a trade? The Rangers should have ZERO leverage in this trade! Don’t offer up your best assets when you know Drury is trying to get rid of him! There are two schools of thought coming from Stars’ fans across social media with this trade, and I understand both to a certain extent, but I do lean more towards one direction than the other.įirst school of thought is this. The Stars not only offered up a 1st round pick, but also a sweetener with a conditional 4th round pick that could become a 3rd round pick if Lundkvist does well enough in new head coach Pete DeBoer’s system. That Lemieux.), asked of New York Rangers General Manager Chris Drury. This was mostly because of the trade request Lundkvist’s agent, Claude Lemieux (Yes. Many in the media were reporting teams were willing to offer a second round pick for Lundkvist, but not much more.

My original reaction to the trade was one of surprise because of the price Dallas was willingly to pay to have Nils Lundkvist become a Star. Dallas Stars General Manager Jim Nill finally did it! He traded away a 1st round pick! I never thought I’d see the light of day that he would willingly trade out a 1st round pick! Last night, the Dallas Stars traded a 2023 conditional 1st round pick and a 2025 conditional 4th round pick to the New York Rangers in exchange for 22 year old defenseman Nils Lundkvist.

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