After solely 27 video games, ahead Tomas Tatar‘s run with the Colorado Avalanche is over. On Friday, the Avs traded him to the Seattle Kraken for a 2024 fifth-round decide.
Whereas many believed Tatar can be a improbable veteran addition for Colorado – including depth to an already spectacular roster – issues did not fairly shake out that means. The 33-year-old struggled to discover a rhythm together with his new workforce and the Avalanche wasted no time chopping bait.
After recording 35 objectives over two seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Tatar inked a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Avalanche earlier than the beginning of the 2023-24 marketing campaign. He didn’t make a lot of an impression, although, ending his brief stint with the group having posted 10 factors and just one aim, which he scored Monday towards the Calgary Flames.
There is a risk that the brief hook on Tatar means the Avalanche have one thing else cooking on the commerce market, however we’ll have to attend and see if that is the case.
The value for Tatar’s providers is much from the one paid by the Vegas Golden Knights and Montreal Canadiens. The Golden Knights dealt first- second- and third-round picks to land the winger from the Detroit Crimson Wings in 2018 whereas the Habs traded legend Max Pacioretty for Tatar, ahead Nick Suzuki and a second-round decide later that yr.
Whereas Tatar hasn’t had his finest season on the stat sheet, he is a confirmed scorer, having notched 20-goal campaigns six instances in his profession, together with in 2022-2023 with the Devils (20). A shakeup was most likely crucial for the Avalanche, who may use a jolt regardless of main the Central with 38 factors (18-9-2). It is a win-win for the Kraken, who’re two factors (27) again of a wild-card playoff spot within the West (10-14-7).
If Tatar works out for Seattle, that is nice. If he would not, they’re solely out a fifth-rounder and the rest of his wage for the yr.