Pittsburgh pens a deal with Predators

[Slava]

In a deal that came together pretty fast tonight the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins swapped four players and a prospect:

To Pittsburgh

Brent Burns
Zach Parise
Jake Virtanen

To Nashville

Duncan Keith
Wayne Simmonds

Basically I really wanted to add Keith and as soon as I saw there was a chance he was on the block I sent a message to try to make it happen. I had put Burns on the block a few weeks ago and didn't really get a compelling offer there. The Parise/Simmonds swap was sort of an after-thought to make the cap work which is funny considering they're both good players. I love Parise; and really didn't want to move him, but you have to give to get. I think that this is a pretty fair deal all around as there are some gains/losses on each side and Virtanen looks like a good prospect.

Thanks to Goffie for the fast deal and hopefully it works out for both of us!

[Hanna Sniper]

In before the I would have given more post

[Hanna Sniper]

Nice job getting Keith, looked at it myself but he has a rating so high that it really is hard to make a deal for... nice you were able to find a way

[Goffie]

Still not 100% sold on moving Keith. But I was in the mood to make a change and I really like the way that Burns is playing in the NHL.
In the sim I have been a two horse team and I needed to add scoring depth. Parise is a star player in his prime and in all honesty I did not want to move Simmonds. It came down 100% to two things. Sim performance as I am adding more scoring and Parise's DF rating. We are hoping he gives us more versatility up front.

Hopefully it works for both teams. If not I will always just make another trade.

[Da_Chief]

Big trade. Fair deal though. Preds get a start dman they've been wanting.

[TurdFerguson]

Good value flip on Simmons. Nice deal...pretty even I think.

[Swayze11]

Good deal guys