The Trade:
Three days before the trade deadline on February 23rd, 2018, Ottawa traded away the struggling Derek Brassard for a great haul, including top goaltending prospect Filip Gustavsson who was a star earlier in the World Juniors.
Ian Cole would later be traded at the deadline for AHLer Nick Moutrey and a 2020 3rd Round Pick, a savvy move by Dorion to pick up a trade asset in the Brassard trade and swap him quickly for more draft capital.
The Brassard trade was a huge win for Ottawa as they would get the 22nd overall selection from Pittsburgh as a huge sweetener. During the 2018 NHL Draft Ottawa traded back with the New York Rangers from 22nd overall.
Pierre Dorion made a trade back to get their guy in defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker and grab his future teammate at North Dakota Jonny Tychonick. Bernard-Docker has proven to be a great prospect as he’s enjoyed two solid seasons at North Dakota and represented Canada at the 2020 World Juniors, where he won gold. While Tychonick hasn’t had the same success, struggling for ice time for two seasons with North Dakota and has now transferred to the University of Nebraska-Omaha trying to find his footing.
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While Gustavsson has struggled through his first two full seasons in Belleville, posting a career save% in the AHL of 0.891 to go along with an abysmal 3.21 goals against average. Goalies are usually hard to judge early in their careers and with Gustavsson just 22 years of age, he could still turn out to be the goalie many people made him out to be.
Ottawa made yet another trade with an asset acquired in the Brassard trade, when they traded the 2019 2nd and 3rd round pick to move up and select goaltender Mads Sögaard.
Now Ottawa has two potential goaltenders of the future that stemmed out of the Derek Brassard trade.