Breaking Down Canadiens and Ducks’ Jiri Sekac-Devante Smith-Pelly Trade

February 24th, 2015 by Jonathan Willis Leave a reply »

On Tuesday, the Anaheim Ducks and Montreal Canadiens pulled the trigger on a straight-up hockey trade, with 2010 second-round pick Devante Smith-Pelly moving to Quebec and highly touted summer signing Jiri Sekac heading to California.

The two teams announced the trade via their respective Twitter accounts:



One of these teams gets a 22-year-old forward playing 12 minutes per game at even strength, with mediocre underlying numbers but also untapped potential. The other gets a 22-year-old forward playing 12 minutes per game at even strength, with mediocre underlying numbers but also untapped potential.

It’s not that these two players are the same; it’s just that this is obviously a change-of-scenery trade. Both players are young, talented forwards who for one reason or another weren’t clicking in their respective cities, and the hope on both ends of this deal is that a second opinion could make all the difference.

It couldn’t have been easy for Montreal to part with Sekac, a player the club signed a year ago after the young Czech chose the Canadiens over ...

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