Article: Trading Danila Yurov Would Be A Massive Mistake For the Wild

[Robert Brent]

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[Citizen Strife]

Russo said the most likely trades that would happen would be Hartman, Spurgeon, or Brodin first.  Ohgren would probably go before Yurov does.

I think the article is needlessly stirring up controversy.  Rossi and Yurov aren't going anywhere.  If they were, they would have been traded by now.

 

[Will D. Ness]

Yurov is looking pretty good.  I like Rossi but if I had to choose between Rossi and Yurov... I might just lay my chips on Yurov.  I know it sounds crazy but Yurov could be some form of Barkov?

Maybe I should dial it back... could he be Ek 2.0?

[Pewterschmidt]

35 minutes ago, Citizen Strife said:

most likely trades that would happen would be Hartman, Spurgeon, or Brodin first.

I wouldn’t lose sleep parting with any of these three.  They’re all past their wild expiration date.   Brodin would get the most return imo.  I’d be shocked if spurgeon has much market value at his age and size.   And Guerin loves presenting silver stick to retiring players

[Imyourhuckleberry]

Trading Yurov for any of those players would be ridiculous unless the Wild would be getting high picks in return. He could have Robert Thomas value, so if you aren't getting a player in their prime or near it, who can deliver at that level, then you simply don't trade him.

[MNCountryLife]

Yurov is getting better every game.  He could be the new Stamkos.  You don't trade him for a has been.  If he heads out the door we better get a big return.  Maybe BG can get his picks back from the Jiricek trade.

[MNCountryLife]

Mids has value.  Big physical guy that plays loads of minutes.  Teams want his size and compete level when playoffs start.  At only 29 we could see a solid return.  

[MNCountryLife]

With the step up of Hunt's play we have an extra D man.  BG should be evaluating the value of what each D man can potentially return against what this team needs.  

[mnfaninnc]

I'm interested in Kyrou and Tuch, I think both can help the team. Yurov is not on the table for them however. Ohgren would be on the table, but prospects, to me, are not guys already on the roster. Injury callups count. 

MNCL is right about Hartman, Spurgeon and Brodin, they need to go first. 

I know in the other thread we were talking about Kempe's contract. I would consider Kyrou a pretty good comparable with Kempe. This contract probably adds the best long term value of the guys mentioned. I do think Tuch is the better fit for what we need, though. One thing I find interesting in this is that Tuch hasn't resigned with his hometown team yet. So, what is he looking for?

As for prospects, we've got Haight, Heidt, Lambos, Ohgren, Spacek, Bankier. That's a lot of guys who we can trade with, plus we've got draft picks, like a top 15 protected '26 1st. 

We're about at the 20 game mark, now we should have an idea where the deficiencies are. We've had an audition of Buium-Faber and it went well for 2 games. So, I do think an older defenseman could be dealt. I'd prefer Spurgy.