AROUND THE LEAGUE - 26-27

[donlever]

Let's put it this way Tciso.

Devils top 6:

Timo Meier Nico Hischier Dawson Mercier

Jesper Bratt Jack Hughes Evangelista

Not bad.

...moves Anthony Mantha/Connor Brown to 3rd/4th line where they belong.

56 points in 81 games for Evangelista on a pretty below average Preds team and he's in a contract year and just turned 24 early this year.

[Lancer]

Not a bad haul for a 2nd-rd pick, but as been mentioned elsewhere, 1st-round pucks don’t have the cachet they used to these days. Unless teams get lucky, if they’re picking outside the top-ten the player they pick is most likely going to fill a support role vice play a key/core spot on the roster. The line between a late-1st and a 2nd-rd pick is thin these days.

It also help trade value-wise that Evangelista is on the younger side of 25.