How The Matt Duchene Trade Became Joe Sakic's Masterpiece | NHL Trade Trees

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tree video, but we'll start with a damn a few years ago I sent out this tweet about Joe Sakic and I was wrong, very extraordinarily wrong, but a few years can change a lot. At the time, the Nashville Predators were a legitimate Stanley Cup contender, at the time the Ottawa Senators were so close to a Stanley Cup Final against the Nashville Predators and the Colorado Avalanche were one of the worst teams we've ever seen. seen in the modern era and It was Colorado Avalanche legend and Colorado Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic who changed everything with a huge deal.

Get ready for producer Drew's favorite video. This is Matt Duchene's business tree. Let's take an in-depth look at what the Nashville Predators got. what the Colorado Avalanche got and both

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s saw Matt Duchene in and out of Ottawa and it seems like something like honestly I should blow up that tweet and hang it above my bed let me tell you something the trade is a bargain for the Avalanche currently it's only going to get better, there's no way it's going to get worse since the beginning of Matt Duchene's NHL career heading into the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, there was a debate about whether John Tavares would go first overall or Victor Headsman would be the first overall, there were whispers. of that, but there was at least one scouting agency that had Matt Duchene as first, imagine being drafted to the NHL, third overall, imagine being drafted to the NHL and it's for the team you grew up rooting for and he played five-eighty . six games for Avalanche 178 goals 250 assists 428 points and some will say yes Steve, how about those playoff stats with Hayes don't mean he only played eight playoff games during his entire tenure with Colorado Avalanche scored six points, but none of them were goals that's how it all came to an end the 2016-17 season for the Colorado Avalanche was bad bad very not good the Vancouver Canucks had the second lowest point total in the NHL that season with 60 that's bad the Avalanche with the worst record in the NHL they had 48 which should be illegal, the ABS won only 22 of 82 games that season and only four of these 60 losses they had were in overtime or the shooter in reference to Mick ichael Sabers only a couple of years old before who were trying to get Connor McDavid and worst case scenario Jack Eichel had 54 points and that team was trying to be bad that's garbage tanking ain't a thing no team is trying to be bad yeah No, all the Cup contenders just trade their best players for national teams, the Avalanche, it all just worked out. wrong injuries and the net killed them Calvin Pickard started 48 games for those ABS his leading scorer was Nathan MacKinnon which makes sense he only scored 53 points which he didn't but he was injured he played all 82 Duchene who played in 77 games Carl Soderberg had six goals, eight assists for 14 points in 80 games. .

Look at his career, nothing in his career suggests he's a 14 point player, nothing, I mean nothing went right for the Avalanche that year, but okay, at least they got the first overall pick, no, they lost all three draft lotteries In the selection, the fourth consolation prize went to Kel Makar, we'll get to that later. and Matt Duchene said: you know what I've done, imagine walking up to one of your childhood idols, who by the way is now your boss, and asking for a trade or hearing that he could trade you or anything you can put in Matt's face .

Duchene was telling him that this photo would not be sent outside of the photo shoot. He knew Shane really put on a brave face to start the 2017 season 18th in 14 games. He had four goals, six assists for 10 points with the ABS, all the wild kicks work. on the phones, the Predators got their hearts broken against the Penguins, the Senators got their hearts broken against the Penguins and it was at that moment that Joe Sakic had a brilliant idea, hey, what if I just traded one guy What doesn't it? I even want to be here and they both combine to give me seven things.

Being this close to winning must make them do something ridiculous because both Senators and Predators said that absolutely every three-way exchange for centuries happened. The Ottawa Senators acquired Matt Duchene. the Colorado Avalanche, that's it, the Nashville Predators acquire Kyle Turris from the Ottawa Senators, that's it, why didn't they do a straight up one-for-one trade? That's because Dechaine was on the Avalanche, he's trying to keep up with both the Ottawa Senators and the Nashville Predators the Colorado Avalanche get Andrew the Hamburglar Ham and Shane Bowers a first round pick in 2018 or 19 it's complicated we'll get to that later a third round pick in 2019 Sam Gerard the second round pick in 2018 and Vladislav command -If not, I just listed seven different things that can be confusing: what gives up in Ottawa, what gives up in Nashville.

I'm glad you asked the Ottawa Senators who acquired Matt Duchene and, to get him, gave up Andrew Hemin, the Hamburglar of legend Shane Bowers. who is a very recent first round pick of theirs at 28th overall, a first rounder that was conditional and a third round pick in 2019, while the Nashville Predators acquire Kyle Turris and to get him they gave Samuel Gerard a second round pick in 2018. and Vladislav praises a former second round pick from 2014. I now know that the producer Drew with these videos is a lifelong Colorado Avalanche fan and in that sense he has a lot in common with Matt Duchene, oh yeah, he drew, yeah, a little bit and I know he wants me to talk about the Avalanche angle of all of this right away and I'll keep him waiting.

Let's start with Ottawa, the 2017-18 season. The Ottawa Senators are coming off a double overtime loss in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference. Ultimately, they think they can do this and if they add Matt Duchene they will be incredible and as fate would have it, Mathieu Shane's first two games against the Avalanche would be back-to-back games against the Senators, are you kidding me and sins? as it should be, since the buyers in this deal won both games four to three, which makes sense, it should be noted that in the first game Duchene had no points and was a... and in the second game he had no points and was a... in fact in his first seven games with the Ottawa Senators Matt Duchene zero goals zero assists and it was at least minus one in every game that's correct zero goals zero says zero points minus ten after seven games starting with Rocky, that actually isn't the fairest Matt Duchene with 23 goals, 26 assists, 49 points in 68 games in his first not even full season with the Ottawa Senators, that's not bad at all, which is bad, however, at At the end of the season the Ottawa Senators had only 67 points, the second-worst record in the NHL. that conditional pick that I keep mentioning, the condition was that it was a first round pick from 2018, which was that same season that the Senators finished second to last in the entire NHL, the Sens had the option of whether that pick was in the top ten first, which was definitely going to be that they could push it back to 2019 and Avalanche fans around the world are like, "Oh my god, this is the best, it's okay when you get a top-five pick because your team sucks, but What happens if you get a top five pick because the other team sucks, the Ottawa Senators decided to use their first round pick, fourth overall in 2018, to select Brady Tkachuk, which means in 2019 he throws the dice, but okay heading into 2018 19, how are you going to finish last if you have Eric Carlson on your team, let's find out, they said the Ottawa Senators quickly traded Erik Carlsson to the San Jose Sharks. , but that's another trade tree, well actually, part of that train will be going up shortly.

Nothing, I mean nothing was going right for the Ottawa Senators. The bad luck just seemed to follow. Matt Duchene At the beginning of that season, Matt Duchene and a group of other Senators players were caught talking trash about the penalty, among other things, in maneuver after dealing with another nightmare season, this time 1819 and Ottawa Matt Duchene was dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets at the 2019 trade deadline, the Ottawa Senators trade Matt Duchene and Julius Bergman, a former 2014 second-round pick the sensation had previously received from San Jose in the Erik deal Carlsson with Columbus for Vitaly Abramov, Jonathan Davidson, a first round. pick in 2019 and a first round pick in 2020 which is this year's draft whenever that is, it's easy to see this as a failure for the Ottawa Senators and after all they tried to win and didn't and gave up the fourth overall pick in 2019, but I will say in their defense that it's too early to judge them too harshly because we don't fully know what they got in return for Matt Duchene, but Vitali Abramov, the 2016 third round pick, looks like he could be a player.

Jonathan Davidson, a 2017 sixth-round pick, looks like he could be a player. Lassy Thompson, drafted 19th overall in 2019, seems fitting to have played in the WHL and then last season played with Elvis in the sm-liiga in Finland and was Elvis' youngest defenseman as for his draft pick. 2020 first round, who it ends up being, it's up to them, it'll probably be somewhere in the middle of the first round, so who can you get there? I don't know, he might be lazy. Erik Karlsson and now you see why it might be a little bit more another reason why I give the envoys the benefit of the doubt.

At least they had a valuable player they gave too much for, but they were able to get some assets back for the Nashville Predators, how do I say this without being mean to Kyle Turris' tourists? His first season in Nashville 13 goals 29 assists 42 points in 65 games that's pretty good next season seven goals 16 assists for 23 points and 55 games and this season until I arrived postponed nine goals 22 assists 31 points in 62 games that's better , but the problem is that it's not six million dollars against the cap this season better and it's definitely not six million dollars against the cap for the next four seasons after this better, it should be mentioned The Cultures have missed a lot of games in the last few seasons and that's just because hockey is a tough sport and it's very hard to stay ahead, but one good thing for Taurus is that he now has a reduced role in Nashville due to last summer.

They signed Mathieu Shane, that's not part of this trade tree because it's a free agent signing, but it's still really strange and now, at the moment when producer Drew has been waiting for what the Colorado Avalanche got in all of this, what? Are you ready? Are you ready, there are only two. pieces that are like Andrew Hammond the Hamburglar and probably because the phrase was like here and I know this because shortly after the trade I drove to Belleville to interview Andrew Hammond because he was still playing with the Sens farm team, they traded him, but that's the little bit What did the Colorado Avalanche care about at the time, except that they eventually needed him and he played in playoff games for the Avalanche and was really good, he played in three games for the ABS, two of them starts, one in one, but with 933 rescues.

Percentage and fun fact, this one says twist the knife, but whatever it is, Andrew Hammond has more playoff wins with the Colorado Avalanche than he does with the Ottawa Senators. Competitive Vladislav is tough, he's one of those guys I perennially believe as a prospect. was drafted six years ago is a pending RFA this season played in 38 games with the Avalanche scoring one goal seven assists in eight points type of talk this is where the Avalanche start hitting hit after hit after hit Shane Bowers the forward the 28th overall pick 2017, scored 27 points in 48 games with the Colorado Eagles this season and was their second-youngest player while doing it, has room to grow Bowen Byram.

It's disgusting if he has anything more than an incredible NHL career. He will be a disappointment, he has topped a point per game as a defenseman in the WHL the last two seasons. Add it to a decor that already features young stars like Sam Gerrard and Cale Makar. It's not fair that the 2019 third-round pick was used to select. forward Matthew Steinberg ranked 63rd overall scored 10 points in 27 games with Cornell University that season and was its second-youngest player by just one week. If he was a week younger, he would have been the youngest player ever. Fun fact for any Canucks. fans watching this, the youngest player on that Cornell team was actually Jack Malone, a sixth-round pick of the Canucks in 2019.

Samuel Gerard, what do you say? a second-round pick of the Nashville Predators in 2016. 47th overall, this lefty has already played 220 games with the Colorado Avalanche, just turned 22 last week, and just signed a 7-year, $5 million deal yeah, i think it will be pretty goodand lastly, there's the 2018 second rounder the ABS got from the Preds, who they would draft. they did it, they traded him, they traded that pick for a third round pick in 2018 and a fifth round pick in 2018 and so far it looks like they might have gotten it done with the fifth rounder, the ABS got daniil giraffe love, a left handed D who played in 36 games with the AK Bars Kaizen of the KHL this season scored one goal, seven assists and eight points.

In those games he wasn't amazing, but at only 19 years old he was Akbar's youngest defender, he recently turned 20 and with Eustis Antonin, in the third round, and I think they are going to call him justice in North America just because it sounds too good, he had a record of 15-5 and three in the SM-liiga last season with six shutouts on a 920 save percentage and if that sounds good to you, it's because it was the best save percentage in the entire SM-liiga. He was 19 for most of the season, just turned 20 and just signed, so I said the Colorado Avalanche got seven pieces from Matt Duchene.

The trade was actually eight right now the only one they don't have is no longer Andrew Ham so I guess technically it's still seven but if it makes you feel better Andrew Hammond had more playoff wins with the Colorado Avalanche than Matt Duchene had goals in the playoffs. The producer just gave me these lines, by the way, because he's a Colorado Avalanche Fan and never quite forgave Matt Duchene for his coverage of Nino Niederreiter's two-on-one goal that eliminated the Colorado Avalanche in 2014. Don't forget I said all that quickly to say this slowly. Colorado Avalanche won this. trade they destroyed this trade if all the pieces go right in this trade they will have crushed it if half the pieces go right they will have crushed this trade the immensity of it if these players go well if they have long and successful NHL careers with the Avalanche , if some of them end up being traded for other players who end up having success for the Colorado Avalanche, this has all the makings of a true all-time home run.

Joe Sakic does not deserve to be fired. I have changed my mind. I'll stop. with Matt Duchene's smear 10 points in 10 games when the Blue Jackets beat the Lightning, it was fun, but aside from what the Avalanche got, these seven Avalanche pieces got in this trade, there's actually a bigger deal in adding all of them. these pieces to a team. I already think he's a cup contender, it's ridiculous. I told Roode that if the Avalanche doesn't win a cup, at least one cup in the next 10 years, I'll be surprised and he said don't curse him and I told him what if I say it over and over again. time and let's not forget the knock-on effects, the shame of the riches that Avalanche has in the back, the young Kalmyk demon is obviously nothing more than Boland Byram, who they got from this trade, Sam Gerard, who they got from this trade , made Tyson.

Berry is expendable for the Avalanche, so they trade Tyson Merry along with Alex Kerfoot for a sixth-round pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Callie Rosen for a third-round pick and Nazem Kadri. It feels overly simplistic to say this because the Avalanche were better than them. showed in 2016-17 that they had young pieces written in mica and had barely made a scratch in the NHL, but it really feels like Joe Sakic rebuilt the Avalanche with a single phone call, I'm guessing two phones since it was a trade three way. I'm going to throw this out there, we're working on the Lindros trade tree, it's huge, but I'm not going to lie, this trade reminds me a little of his beginning.

Now I'm not saying the Avalanche needed Peter Forsberg in this whole process. deal, but it seems like they acquired some really good players, a group of really good players, a deal of this magnitude, if handled correctly, if the wording is correct, can affect the Avalanche in a positive way for a generation, I should say, aside from Gerard, there aren't a Tons of NHL games played on the Avalanche side of this tree yet, but if the Avalanche hit these players on these picks and continue to hit, this could be an all-time spoils , so leave a comment in the comment box below producer Dru, feel free to what do you think about the Matt Duchene trade?

If you want to know how Colorado did. I went to Nashville and Ottawa at the end of all this. So that's it for this. Thank you very much for watching, please click like if you liked this video. click subscribe if you really liked it, tell your friends that Joe Sakic shouldn't be fired, he was bad, okay, it wasn't the first time, man.