It has been a busy week for the Arizona Coyotes. They made a number of trades, lost Tyler Pitlick in the expansion draft to the Seattle Kraken, and drafted nine players at the NHL Entry Draft. Below are some of the Five For Howling crew and their thoughts on everything that happened.
Thoughts on the trade that sent Conor Garland and Oliver Ekman-Larsson to Vancouver and brought the 9th overall pick to Arizona?
Mike: It’s hard to call this trade anything but a massive win for the Coyotes. The Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson, and Antoine Roussel contracts barely factor into my evaluation — they all only have one year remaining and there’s an outside chance the ‘Yotes might be able to flip Beagle or Roussel, with retention, at the trade deadline for some low draft picks.