Our original trade post with some thoughts from the media and player stats can be found here. Rather than adding to the post there and potentially missed, we created another post for more thoughts from the media on this interesting trade.
Jay Zawaski: “Source on the Schmaltz deal: Strome: really skilled but slow Perlini: big, skates well, works hard, solid wrist shot Also hinted that the Schmaltz camp was asking for more than the Hawks thought he was worth. He was due to be a RFA after this season.”
Jay Zawaski: “I’m told he was asking MUCH more than $3 million.