Article: Wild Acquire Justin Brazeau From Bruins Hours Before Trade Deadline

[Thomas Williams]

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[RedLake]

Good trade. Need some nut in round 1.

[Need4speed99]

This is about the dumbest trade I've seen. The nhl has changed, billy can't seem to figure that out.

Then we go into specifics(he's always hurt and not a point producer) but hey let's chalk this up as a win. Because in mn we just follow the status quo, right?

[Imyourhuckleberry]

There's the right shot winger everyone says the Wild need, I guess.

Not sure it makes the team better, but I imagine they have some plan...

He did score a bunch of points in the OHL. Maybe he has more to offer in the NHL?

Edited Friday at 04:55 AM by Imyourhuckleberry

[Pewterschmidt]

5 minutes ago, Need4speed99 said:

This is about the dumbest trade I've seen. The nhl has changed, billy can't seem to figure that out.

Then we go into specifics(he's always hurt and not a point producer) but hey let's chalk this up as a win. Because in mn we just follow the status quo, right?

Is this guy Latandresse 2.0 or trenin 2.0?

 Don’t be dumb bill

[Protec]

Looks like Colorado got Brock Nelson. 

Knudi, gonna miss ya. 

[RedLake]

Colofornia can keep Nelson.

[SkolWild73]

45 minutes ago, Protec said:

Looks like Colorado got Brock Nelson. 

Knudi, gonna miss ya. 

They gave up a bit too.  1st and third plus their top prospect

[Burnt Toast]

Another player that will hopefully earn his contract in the playoffs. I hope MK & JL do well in Boston. My biggest question now is… Could there be one more trade coming before the TD tomorrow? 

[Secord Sucks]

Brock Nelson to Colorado (and yeah, for way too much).

Mikko Rantanen likely headed to Dallas, and we answer.with…

BRAZEAU?!??  Is it next year yet?

Kidding aside, we all know we have limited $ to work with. I’m still holding out hope for something else to happen, and it’s only fair to wait to judge this trade until after we see Brazeau actually playing for us. I loved the potential of Khus, but interested in seeing what Brazeau brings to the table. 🤞

[Skomonkey]

All I would say is we gave up 2 that didn’t produce at all, one of which was injury prone. They sucked on the PK. Marat has potential and we saw “brief” glimpses of this at times and asked ourselves where has this been and why can’t he be consistent?  Yes he was 4th line with crappy wingers so likely told to throttle back. His only offensive move to drive in the zone, stop and spin then lose the puck. 
 

in the end I’m willing to roll the dice with a larger guy. 
 

the Wild don’t hit and we need someone other than moose to hit someone out there. We have too many small twirling forwards that the league has figured out will never challenge you on the forecheck. We just spin away. Any D-man worth a damn knows this and just shows patients. 
 

the D’s and Shaw at least went out and kicked ass even if they couldn’t finish. More fun to watch and certainly gave us a more physical presence.
 

Never understood how they said the Wild were hard to play against?  We are not physical enough for the playoffs. we played a good system and with Krill and Ek and a full D core we could sustain offensive play where grit and identity lead to goals. We have lost that. Seattle showed how we had to hold on 30 minutes to preserve a 1 goal lead and lucked out. We are a dump, sit back not chase and try to clog up neutral zone and hold on for life in our own zone. 

[Citizen Strife]

Marat may end up a better player, but he was a replaceable cog right now 

[SkolWild73]

5 hours ago, Secord Sucks said:

Mikko Rantanen likely to Dallas, and we answer.with

Will be interesting to see if this is true.  To play armchair GM, what does Dallas give up?  Next year they have $25M in cap space before Ranty.  They have tons of UFA's and RFA's including Benn, Duchene and Johnston, Borque and Granlund. If Ranty gets $14M, it will not leave them much to fill their other 7 roster spots

Could see a trade centered around Johnston.  Can't see who else Carolina would want in return.

[Fezig]

27 years old

First year in league

I might be a pessimist, but this doesn't make me think he'll get the team over the hump.

 

[OldDutchChip]

Marat did everything he was told to do, and had so much potential, speed, heart...... this is a stupid move, there was no need to ship him out for THIS - why not be patient with him?

well - we know what happens to MN players who are traded to boston. congrats on SC win soon Marat!

[M_Nels]

I'd say I'm whelmed by this trade. Will it move the needle? Maybe, maybe not.

Love the hustle, speed, tenacity of both Khus & Lauko but simply put Khus was not producing and Lauko's got the injury concerns. Did we give up on Khus too soon? Possibly. 

The thing that worries me is we just got even slower. Billy clearly wants to build a defensive team from the goalie out and not a high flyer with questionable depth and D like Edmonton but we just added another 1-ton and not a Corvette.

[IllicitFive]

I think this is all about bringing in a 4th line guy, some size, and can put a couple in the net. I liked watching Khus, but lets be honest about what he brought. A good fore and back checker..... that's about it, he has 2 goals all season. Always had hope he would take a next step but he hasn't. The wild had 3 total right handed players, one of which is now Vinnie. Marat is 5'11" 176, Justin is listed as 6'5" or 6'6" 227. Per the Bruins blogs he sounds like a big body, decent hands and vision down low. They had hopes of being a net front guy on the PP and "Brazeau impressed with his willingness to be physical and his presence on the forecheck, traits the Bruins needed down the stretch."

I view this as a future 3rd or 4th line guy if he gets resigned. Lots of people wanted the Wild to get some size, well there it is.  Plus being right handed and the ability to "bang down low". Lauko is always hurt, Khus, like him or not, produced less than Justin and didn't have much size. Best we can hope is he takes off a bit like Vinnie and contributes, and if the wild make the playoffs we can hope he has some snarl, take a page from Folignos book and not Jordan Greenway. This is not a get them over the hump type deal, try viewing this as a solidifying the bottom 6 and making them bigger and tougher.  May be all pie in the sky, but as fans, what else do we have?

[Citizen Strife]

A lot of this hinges on the Rossi situation.  Rossi being entrenched as the best center the Wild have (for now), and Ek (2nd best when healthy, and the most important) leads to the thought process.  Was Khusnutdinov good enough to be the 3rd or 4th option?  I'm not exactly sure.  He wasn't exactly doing enough to justify it right now.  I think if the coaches saw the offense, they would have given him the rope.

They are going to pivot to Gaudreau and Hartman until Yurov shows up next season.  Gaudreau is just plain better right now.  They didn't give up the crazy haul for a month of Nelson.  I doubt they are beating Dallas whether Rantanen goes there or not.  But they aren't fooling themselves into blowing shit up riding Khus and Lauko as offensively challenged 4th liners.  

 

 

[MacGyver]

Brazeau is 27 years old. He's played in 79 NHL games and 189 games in the AHL along with 268 games in the OHL. Sounds like a border line career minor leaguer.  I liked Lauko but couldn't stay healthy. Wasn't as big of a fan of Marat as many are here. Lightning speed and some good hands but just couldn't produce. And he was going to get pulverized in the playoffs. We rail on Rossi for his size but Marat had a couple inches on him but gave up about 15 pounds to him and didn't produce. 

[Pewterschmidt]

1 hour ago, Citizen Strife said:

Marat may end up a better player, but he was a replaceable cog right now 

I would rather we'd given Khuz another year to develop (and Laukzy), but I'm also not heartbroken he's gone because not only was he tiny (and Laukzy's groin broken) but he really wasn't even decent at anything: faceoffs, creating offense, PK'ing.  So bro, what would you say you do here.  

Now to trade him for 27 year old Latandresse Light who's a bubble NHL'r looks like another Bill "I'm playing 3D chess while they're playing checkers" Guerin kind of move.  Just don't eat the chess pieces Bill.

#don'tbedumbbill

[Pewterschmidt]

35 minutes ago, M_Nels said:

but we just added another 1-ton and not a Corvette.

Early word on Brazzers is that he's got good hands (Latandresse) but he's slow (Trenin).  Hopefully he's not heartless like Trenin and he's more physical than Latandresse.  If he's Trenin with handles, I'm very disappointed.

[Pewterschmidt]

34 minutes ago, IllicitFive said:

think this is all about bringing in a 4th line guy, some size,

It kills me that we continue to give up assets for 4th line guys.  These stiffs should be cheap in the offseason (Lauko) or picks up for peanuts on the waiver wire.

[Pewterschmidt]

37 minutes ago, IllicitFive said:

try viewing this as a solidifying the bottom 6 and making them bigger and tougher.

I assume this is the intent with this trade.  The eye test will tell us if the scouting dept deserves credit or if this is another one off the uprights.

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1 hour ago, OldDutchChip said:

Marat did everything he was told to do, and had so much potential, speed, heart...... this is a stupid move, there was no need to ship him out for THIS - why not be patient with him?

well - we know what happens to MN players who are traded to boston. congrats on SC win soon Marat!

Marat will turn out to be a solid player for a long time.  The  Brazeau will disappear.  And we are doing this to drag a team into a first round loss.    

If you could not unload Hartman or Trenin to anyone, they should have just let it ride until the offseason a few weeks.

[FredJohnson]

9 hours ago, Need4speed99 said:

he's always hurt and not a point producer

Lauko?