Red Wings Acquire David Legwand

Dobber Sports

2014-03-05

legwand

 

Fantasy Impact: The Nashville Predators have traded centerman and career-Pred David Legwand to the Detroit Red Wings for Patrick Eaves, prospect Calle Jarnkrok and a third-round draft pick.

 

The Red Wings get: an experienced second-line center who can chip in at both ends. Legwand is having the second best offensive season of his career. With Henrik Zetterberg out for the regular season, Legwand should be able to continue his pace.

 

The Preds get: a decent depth player/reserve player who gets hurt a lot. But that was just the Wings pushing off their useless contract. The Preds really did this for the prospect and pick. Jarnkrok is a really good prospect with upside, but he had indicated that he will be going back to Sweden next year. However, with the organizational change, it’s likely that he will remain in North America and the Preds will give him a fair shot at a roster spot next year.

 

For more on Jarnkrok – click here.

 

 

Fantasy Players Impacted: Legwand’s value remains static. It would go down, had Zetterberg been healthy, but with Zetterberg out Legwand can continue to see decent ice time and power-play time. The loser here is Stephen Weiss, who returns from injury with an opportunity to move back up the depth chart…only to see Legwand come in and take it. He can still get back to his 60-point ways if he is truly healthy, but he’ll have to work a lot harder for it.

 

In Nashville, some power-play ice time opens up for Craig Smith, who has been robbed of it this season when he’s been their best offensive option. It will be interesting to see if his offense shows further improvement. With Legwand gone, it’s possible that we see Colin Wilson or Smith moved back to center and it’s likely that Filip Forsberg is recalled.

 

📢 advertisement:

 

Fantasy Players this helps, in order:

1. Smith

2. Forsberg

3. Jarnkrok

 

Fantasy Players this hurts, in order

1. Weiss

 

 

 

Leave A Comment

UPCOMING GAMES

No data found.

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

  Players Team
ISAAC HOWARD EDM
RUTGER MCGROARTY PIT
MATIAS MACCELLI TOR
CARTER VERHAEGHE FLA
ELIAS PETTERSSON VAN

Top Goalie Profile Views

  Players Team
JESPER WALLSTEDT MIN
MICHAL PRADEL DET
GABRIEL D'AIGLE PIT
SCOTT WEDGEWOOD COL
NIKITA TOLOPILO VAN

LINE COMBOS

  Frequency COL Players
23.7 MARTIN NECAS NATHAN MACKINNON ARTTURI LEHKONEN
22.4 VALERI NICHUSHKIN BROCK NELSON GABRIEL LANDESKOG
19.0 LOGAN O'CONNOR PARKER KELLY JACK DRURY

DobberHockey Podcasts

Fantasy Hockey Life: Draftastic 2 – Q&A on the NHL Draft

Victor and Jesse are back in studio as Victor reports on his time at the NHL Draft and his outlook on fantasy rookie drafts. We discuss Michael Misa, Matthew Schaefer, Cole McKinney, Mason West, Milton Gastrin and Jacob Ihs-Wozniak with player audio. Victor also answers patron questions on which players you’ll want to target for […]

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

📢 advertisement: