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Originally Posted by Matty81
Pats have gutted their team, rarely see a teardown this dramatic for a team still kind of in the mix. Kinda crazy scenario where you have the 4th place team (RD) buying rentals at a steep price from the 3rd place team (Regina).
After trading Klimchuk they've moved Dryden Hunt and Kyle Burroughs for a prospect and a couple picks to Medicine Hat and now Connor Gay to Red Deer for Jake Leschyshyn, some picks involved.
The second deal hasn't been fully confirmed as to the details but it sounds like they did really well... getting the 6th overall pick in the draft a few months after he was picked and potentially more picks for a 19 year old who is just an OK player for me. Red Deer must be desperate with the memorial cup coming up next year - 3 of their top 6 scorers this year are 19s already so they'll have to sell one at a cut rate this offseason. That's a massive cost to upgrade from Kopeck to Gay.
Bad decision to award the memorial cup to Red Deer next year anyway imo... how you give it to a team that missed the playoffs last year is beyond me. Losing Cote and Maxwell next year, they are a long ways from being even a top 2 team in their conference and contending with Brandon or MH who will both be very good next year, let alone the whole league.
Still no word on Draisaitl being dealt. After all the rumors PA's GM came out a couple days ago and said he was still shopping him and it wasn't done so Kelowna doesn't seem like a lock at all unless he just made that up for some reason. Would be nice if they get him but I'm not convinced Kelowna is the lock everybody is saying they are even if they do. They'll have a good chance is all.
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Kelowna is getting Drausaitl 100%. Delay is until WJC is over. Schmidli and a 1st going the other way.
Olsen is looking likely as well.