Slug Report: 64 in 64

By Archibald L. Slug (slugreportarchie@gmail.com), Monday, August 10th at 8:55 pm EST



The sixth installment of a series of threads where we go back to some trades that originally involved draft picks, and look at what those picks became.



Took yesterday off. I realized I needed to start staggering these or else it would end way before the season starts. Every other day from now on!



Trade #6:

"Chicago Trades:



2nd round, NHL Draft (25th overall)

6th round, NHL Draft (105th overall)



Washington Trades:



3rd round NHL Draft (50th overall)

3rd round Prospect Draft



Chicago will confirm here when he can!"



Chicago’s second trade of many, let’s see how trading down to trade up in the prospect draft worked out for him:



Chicago Receives:

Drew Doughty***

Mikko Rantanen, F



Washington Recieves:

Mark Giordano, D***

Patric Hornqvist, F



***Player has left this team via Trade



Archie’s Winner: Chicago

Reasoning: This one’s pretty even in my book, but I gotta give it to Chicago. Let’s start with Doughty. At first, he looked to me like a case of overrated-fantasy-player, in that he plays better than his fantasy stats will indicate. However, when I dug deeper, he ranks 17th in FPPG among defensemen (w/ a significant amt. of GP). Plus he’s young and a hell of a player, so there’s no doubt he’ll improve. Giordano, though, is a fantasy tank. On that same list of players, he ranks 4th for FPPG. His two downsides are his age and his injury history. Giordano (31) only has a few more good years left in the tank most likely, whereas Doughty (25) is just entering his prime. Very important in a keeper league like this! Moving on, I would contrast Patric Hornqvist as being the safe bet to Rantanen’s risk-reward factor. Nothing screams 50+ points like having Crosby as your center. However, Mikko’s draft position (10th overall this year) could mean good things for this prospect winger down the line. But then again, Hornqvist (230th overall in 2005) shows us what drafting ultimately is - a crapshoot.



Oh, and just a quick note: I may decide to change the format of this to outline each team’s individual trading to determine what they started with and what the ended up with. I don’t really like the idea of assigning players picked by another team to a team that could’ve picked someone else with that pick., if that makes sense.



What do you guys think? Let me know.