[Trade] Lekhonen to Colorado

[Avs31]

Lehky is an analytical darling. Fantastic add by Sakic for a cup contending team. And he’s an RFA too which is why the cost was high. Hurting Barron hurts but he’s a prospect who at best will be a very good top 4 D, teams over value prospects all the time.

[rataylor22]

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[saucelife90]

Justin Barron & a 2nd....

Brutal.

Yeah I’ll eat my words on this one.

[2014olympicgold]

Yeah, I'll eat my words too.
11pts in 14playoff games
9pts in 16regular season games with the Avs

20pts/30gp = 55pts/82games. And he's an RFA. It worked out.

[Daydream Nation]

How good of a prospect is Barron because the 2nd is going to be pick 60 or so? I was thinking about this trade recently and how it was a brilliant move by Sakic. Great depth move for this playoff run and still an RFA that can be resigned to help retool when Colorado loses a couple UFAs this offseason. And it's not like Colorado is lacking for dman depth.

[2014olympicgold]

How good of a prospect is Barron because the 2nd is going to be pick 60 or so? I was thinking about this trade recently and how it was a brilliant move by Sakic. Great depth move for this playoff run and still an RFA that can be resigned to help retool when Colorado loses a couple UFAs this offseason. And it's not like Colorado is lacking for dman depth.

Barron was a former late 1st round pick (2020) in a year where scouting was iffy so guys could have gone really early or really late due to lack of scouting/games played by prospects. And in the AHL this past season got 20pts in 43games, had 31pts in 33games in the QMJHL last yr. He sounds like a late 1st round defenseman pick really, maybe even a mid-1st. He has size (6'2") and weight (195lbs) for a 20yr old.

In 2019, Barron was ranked 10th in Bob McKenzie's pre-season draft rankings, Drysdale was 8th. Just for a comparison of where he was before he had a meh draft yr season, and Drysdale had a good draft yr season. Obvi I'm not saying he's Drysdale (who went 6th that yr), but guys have bad draft yrs and take a bit to come back especially after a weird draft yr like he had. Look at Liljegren with the Leafs. He was a top 10 guy at the beginning of his draft yr then dropped to the 20s cause he had Mono and took like 2yrs to get back to form. Now he's a top 4D.

[4T2]

How good of a prospect is Barron because the 2nd is going to be pick 60 or so? I was thinking about this trade recently and how it was a brilliant move by Sakic. Great depth move for this playoff run and still an RFA that can be resigned to help retool when Colorado loses a couple UFAs this offseason. And it's not like Colorado is lacking for dman depth.

He was super popular locally when he played for the Mooseheads and was named Captain his last year here. Definitely has potential to be a very good NHL defence man. I don’t know if it will translate to much fantasy success but he should be a mainstay on the second pairing in Montreal for years to come

[kovalchuk17]

in the likely event nicushkin and probably burakovsky are too expensive to keep, lehkonen gonna get some good top 6 minutes next season.

[Axeman33]

I still think the Habs did very well in this trade. Of course, we won't know until it all comes out in the wash with a draft pick and a prospect Dman, but finding potential top 4, right handed Dmen are not an easy thing to find. I do agree with Gabe that Barron might not turn into a fantasy darling but I am pretty sure the Habs don't care about fantasy hockey and only care about finding quality players, which I believe Barron will turn into.

[saucelife90]

I agree, I still think the Habs made out great in the deal. Very rarely do deadline acquisitions perform well, let alone improve after a trade. Just worked out well in this instance.

[tweetdrivr]

Always nice to see a win win.

[Invictus]

Probably will cheer for Avs to get the cup now. Go Lehky!