How The Ilya Kovalchuk Trade Allowed The Winnipeg/Atlanta Franchise To Acquire Dustin Byfuglien

Imagine you were so good at hockey and then someone offered you a hundred million dollars to play it and after a couple of years you said no, I'm fine, not all of us can live that life, but not all of us are really into Kovalchuk. Hi, I'm Steve Dangle and this is a

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tree video where we look at the history of how a

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evolved over the years and today's will be Ilya Kovalchuk coming from the Atlanta Thrashers or the Winnipeg Jets, it depends on who. you ask him. Jersey Devils back in 2001 Ilya Kovalchuk was considered a very good hockey player, so good in fact that he was drafted first overall, unfortunately the team representing him was the Atlanta Thrashers and they were really bad for a long time , but Kovalchuk did not have it. that problem as a rookie he scored 29 goals, 22 assists for 51 points in just 65 games as a sophomore he scored 67 points, 38 of which were goals the next season he scored 41 goals, which was enough to win him the Maurice Rocket Rashard Trophy , but here's the thing the 41 goals he scored to win the rocket which was actually the fifth highest goal total of Kovalchuk's career was actually tied for fifth since oh three oh four two oh nine ten Kovac scored at least 40 goals for six straight seasons was a dynamo, but the Thrasher were the Thrasher, the Thrasher made the playoffs only once the entire time Ilya Kovalchuk was there and Sean Avery just followed him around like his annoying shadow the entire time.

Finally, on February 4, 2010, the Thrashers opted to rebuild and made a deal. with the Devils and as you can see, yeah, it's kind of a big trade tree, to be exact, the New Jersey Devils

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d a second round pick in 2010, ANSI defenseman Salamullah and Ilya Kovalchuk, the Atlanta Thrashers

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d defenseman Johnny Oduya, forward prospect, Patrice Cormier, forward prospect. Nicholas Berg forced a 2010 first round pick into a 2010 second round pick. Now let's look at how this trade affected the Atlanta Thrashers and therefore the Winnipeg Jets, as well as the entire NHL for years to come . At first glance, what the Thrasher will get.

Great in terms of immediate roster, helps get Johnny Oduya, who is a rising defenseman in the NHL at the time, and Nicholas Berg Force, who as a rookie, that was the season the trade was made, scored 13 goals in 27 points in 54 games. In the system you have Patrice Cormier, who as a former second round pick, a recent second round pick in 2008 and recent captain of Canada's world junior team, also earned a second round pick in 2010, although you gave up a pick second round pick in the trade to the second round pick that Thrasher gave up was 38th overall, the one they got was 54th, so they basically went down in the second round in 2010, but they also got a first in 2010 which was 24 overall, which is a pretty good futures package, but The problem with the Atlanta Thrashers from the moment they joined the NHL is that if you don't chase the future properly, you'll always be chasing it after a couple of seasons with Atlanta and one with the Jets.

Johnny Oduya was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks. in exchange for a second round pick in 2013 and a third round pick in 2013 again, that trade looks good, you just have to use it correctly, but what they do with those picks, the Jets used that 2013 third round pick to select to J again. The World Junior credentials look like he's going to be great. He never really broke out. He's still in the AHL where he's had at least one hundred penalty minutes in each of his first seven AHL seasons, except that time in 1516 where he was called up by the Jets through nine games, don't you hate when that happens?

The 2013 second they got also triggered this pick going to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a third-round pick, a fourth-round pick, and a fifth-round pick is an increasingly popular thought. process throughout hockey that after the top 10 or 15 picks in the first round, the draft is pretty close, so the more picks you can get the better, even if that means trading to get three picks for one, it's Pretty cool, but again, what do you do? With them, the Washington Capitals use that pick to select Zach Sanford, who ended up winning the Stanley Cup with the st. Louis Blues last year and had a career-high 30 points, the Jets, on the other hand, got Jimmie Lodge yen kostelec and Tucker poolman.

Lodge was split last season between the ECHL and the Slovak League and Kostelec played in the Czech League last season. Tucker Poolman was the only one with a regular spot on the Jets' roster last season in 57 games, so it took the Jets more than half a decade to benefit from trading Johnny Oduya with regularity on their best-ever line It's safe, but half a dozen years yes. difficult and what the Jets got for Johnny Oduya is better than what they got for Patrice Cormier, which is 52 regular season games in a row for a guy who is not big and forceful, difficult to have in Haiti in the minors for sure, but without a lasting impact on the NHL.

Nicholas Berg forced the former first. pick someone else with that incredible rookie season he was having, yes it was the best season of his career and imagine how different the Jets would look today if instead of getting Byrd fours they got the next pick in that draft which was TJ oshi after 79 games. On the strength of Thrasher's Byrd, he was packaged with Patrick Doll Miller and sent to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Radek Dvorak and a fifth-round pick in 2011. Dvorak played 82 games with the Atlanta Thrashers, scoring 37 points and was a Jet from Winnipeg for nine days before. hit free agency and left with that fifth round pick they got, they packaged him with a seventh round pick and sent him to San Jose for a fourth, which is a shame because the fourth round was used to select the guy who is currently in the KHL and the 5th round was used to select Shawn cornering.

It took him a while to recover, but Carell is a good player. Let's see if you don't give me good news for the Jets, I'll turn this video off. Here we are, what did I say? Sometimes if you chase the future, you might end up chasing it forever. The Winnipeg Jets decided to go after him. The Winnipeg Jets traded the first- and second-round misses they got from New Jersey in Kovalchuk's deal along with Joey. Crabb Jeremy Morin and Marty traveled to Chicago in search of a key value Brent Opel. They were eager and a guy you may have heard of is named Dustin Byfuglien.

This is a true story. We have a business tree chat group. It's me, freelance editor Tom, and producer Drew. We were talking about trade trees that we want to do in the future and I'm pretty sure we scheduled the Kovalchuk trade tree and the Buckland trade tree back to back until Tom did his research and discovered a guy through the same tree, like this let's talk about If we go back in time, it's not the Jets anymore, it's the Atlanta Thrashers at the time when they were chasing the future forever. The Chicago Blackhawks, on the other hand, had an immediate decision to make.

They had just won the 2010 Stanley Cup, but it came at a cost: they weren't going to be able to keep the band together and they traded some guys, but what were the Chicago Blackhawks? Oh, you are the reigning Stanley Cup champions and you have too many good players, but you had one player in particular who was fascinating in 2010 in the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Byfuglien scored 16 points, 11 of them goals and maybe Even more impressive than that, he intimidated Chris Pronger. This was a time when in front of the net Chris Pronger was talking about him like a god and Dustin Byfuglien just picked him up and threw him around the key, it was discreet, so the Atlanta Thrashers attacked when a Peck Jets organization He caught it and they said, "Hey, welcome aboard, you're playing defense now and a lot of people." he said that's silly, you can't just go from playing forward to defense and expect to be good at it and then we all sit on our mistake now.

I'm sure you heard recently that Dustin Byfuglien's days with the Winnipeg Jets are over. Man, that guy had a good streak even though he played 528 regular season games, one hundred and two goals and 363 points. He performed even better in the playoffs in 17 games when the Jets played three rounds a few years ago, scoring 16 points in six. -game series against eventual Stanley Cup champions st. Louis Blues had eight points and forgot about the points he scored. There can't be many more players in the league you wouldn't want to be in a four-to-seven-game war with than Dustin Byfuglien.

The rest of the deal wasn't as glamorous. a depth forward for the Thrashers for a year before they traded him to San Jose for a fifth-round pick in 2011, who never played in the NHL. Brent Soulful, a deep defenseman in the organization, was packaged with Nigel Dawes and sent to the Montreal Canadiens for Ben. Maxwell in a fourth in 2011, that fourth was then packaged with another fourth in 2011 and sent to Montreal for a third again. He never played in the NHL's Hakeem Alley. Although I want to spend a little time on the player Lu was traded for and who he never played for. the Thrasher's or the Jets, but all of you in Calgary made an immediate impact for this video.

I went back and watched highlights from his first two NHL games with the Calgary Flames after this eventful deal, in his first game he had a 3-2 assist The Calgary Flames win over the Vancouver Canucks is a first Great NHL point in his first NHL game and it's a win in his second game. He scored two goals on his first run and Algol, which was going to be a pass to Mike Cammalleri that deflected off someone and went in and the second goal was like a point shot that came out of his back or something and found its way into the network background.

He had crushing hits against Cam Fowler and in the second the Ducks said enough was enough. Matt Valesky jumps. him and had a ten-minute misconduct and George Barrows did too, Simao because he was still playing highlights from that game, it was fun to say the least, a 5-2 win for the Flames over the Anaheim Ducks on April 7, 2012 I'm rambling on about what the Winnipeg Jets are currently left with from Ilya Kovalchuk's deal that was made with Atlanta Thrashers poolman Tucker, but I always try to emphasize this in these videos, that the trade was 10 years ago, if you have no players left, okay, what happened? you come out of that for those 10 years and the answer is at least 500+ games where Dustin Byfuglien was a rock in your lineup oh yeah who made the demons nervous?

Salma, played 74 games for the Devils, the second round pick the Devils came from Atlanta, they used to draft John Merrill who played two hundred and sixteen games for them and then was stolen by the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft and then there's Ilya Kovalchuk after being traded for Thrasher. Kovalchuk was very productive when he arrived with the Devils fewer goals but more assists 10 goals 17 assists for 27 points in 27 games he had two goals and forces for six points in the playoffs but that was in only five games and the Devils were eliminated in the first round The following season Kovalchuk scored 31 goals on 29 assists for 60 points in 81 games, that's good for sure, but it's not the dominance we expect from a Kovalchuk at the time, which doesn't help matters, the New Jersey Devils had the eighth-best goals against in the entire NHL that season.

His goals for 30th out of 30 are difficult to attribute to Kovalchuk because the closest devil behind him was Patrick le Oz with 21. Next season he will have to repeat De Bourgh's behind the bench, a couple of young players give their step and the Devils. Cole will score 37 goals, forty-six assists for 83 points in 77 games, that's more like last season, his goals are eighth in the entire NHL, but his goals are 11th instead of 30th. playoffs were even better despite injuries Kovalchuk had eight goals and 11 assists for a team that led 19 points in 23 playoff games when the New Jersey Devils reached Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final against the LA Kings in 2012 , the Devils won't end up pulling off the miraculous comeback from three series losses over the Kings, but if they had, there's a good chance Kovalchuk would have won that consummate that year, so there will be a little thing called a medallion once the hockey returns.

Kovalchuk has 31 points in 37 games which is not bad, but 11 of them are goals the devil's goals against take a step back on 15 his goals to again tank 28 of 30 which leads to a perfect storm let's go back to summer 2010 is right after the Devils acquired Kovalchuk, the Devils didn't get very far in the playoffs but they look at him and say: we have a player and when you score 40 or more goals in six consecutive seasons you can ask for a lot of money and Lula Morello in the New Jersey DevilsThey offered a lot of money $102 million that you could look at today and come out fine.

I mean, Connor McDavid makes a hundred million and they had longer contracts back then, that's true, that's true, they had longer contracts back then. Connor McDavid can only sign an eight-year contract with the Oilers. Here's the thing, although the contract they offered Kovalchuk was more than twice as long as the New Jersey Devils offered Ilya Kovalchuk $102 million over 17 seasons, as you know with Connor McDavid. one hundred million dollars divided by eight seasons, that is, a cap of 12.5 million dollars. 102 million dollars divided by 17 is six. I don't care if it was ten years ago that the Devils tried to land a six-time 40+ goal scorer.

Rocket winner Rashard to a $6 million cap hit and the NHL said it's ridiculous that if the deal had been done, he would still have seven full seasons left on that contract after this one. Some faster math. 17 times an 82-game regular season is 1,394 games. Wow, Kovalchuk must have been going for a record or something, or the contract was nonsense and was intentionally made longer than necessary to lower the limit, which was the problem with these diving long contracts, which is exactly why I think that I got rid of after the NHL said that's ridiculous, try again. Lula Morello said how about only a hundred million, so we took out 2 million in 15 years, which is still a six point six six six six six six hits on the salary cap haha, it's the Devils, it was a long and ridiculous saga, the NHL was like we were I'll find you a first rounder and Lula Morello says yes but no you're not in the NHL you're absolutely right here now how could that story get any more ridiculous?

Retired coach in 2013, he simply walked away from that deal. Three seasons into his $100 million contract with 12 seasons remaining on his 15th season contract, Kovalchuk walked away from the New Jersey Devils, walked away from the NHL to go play in the Continental Hockey League now for all who look at this in disbelief, thinking how the hell could he do something like that, listen, here's the difference between us and him according to the calm friendly limit Ilya Kovalchuk's career earnings in the National Hockey League were about sixty-eight point six million dollars, another 0.4 million would have been nice, but I'll tell you it's sixty-eight.

The six million dollars he earned in the NHL does not include the money he earned in Russia before being drafted. The money he earned playing in Russia during the Oh 405 lockout. He played 11 games during the Oh 506 season and then during the 2012 season. -13 season he returned there and then after abandoning this deal he played five consecutive seasons in the KHL for the rich ska st. Petersburg and can also play at home Ilya Kovalchuk has earned enough money throughout his hockey career that he could make every article of clothing with money, he could build his house with money, he could swim in money and even wipe away tears. with money thinking about the 100 million dollar contract, then he walked away, he has some money, by the way, which means totally unavailable to the devil.

At the beginning of this video we talked about how the Thrashers or the jets didn't get enough. From this deal they obtained five good assets, but they did not use them properly. What did the Devils get? They got a season of hockey from NC Sal Mela. They got over 200 games from John Merrill, he was an excellent defender and Kovalchuk the The 2011-2012 season called the truck was fantastic, he was Ilya Kovalchuk as advertised and in the playoffs he was even better, they almost won the Stanley Cup, which is the period, it's the goal, but only getting three seasons out of Kovalchuk and one of It was a lockout-shortened season and one and a half of those seasons wasn't even the Kovalchuk you thought you were getting.

Did the Devils really get that deal right? I know it's unfair if the Devils win two more games in 2012. Stanley Cup Playoffs you say yes, absolutely, the Stanley Cup champions, but they didn't and it's professional sports, they're not trying to be fair, it's fascinating, it's in debate, technically they are at least two business betrayals, one let me know what you think. in the comment box below but for now that's all for this, thank you so much for watching, hit like if you liked this video, hit subscribe if you really want to tell your friends not to stay away from a hundred million dollar contract because I don't know if you ever scored 40 goals in the NHL, no you haven't, so take the money that