The Buffalo Sabres appear to have won the trade involving JJ Peterka, sending him to the Utah Mammoth for Josh Doan and Michael Kesselring. Doan has had a breakout season, reinforcing the Sabres' favorable position in the trade evaluation.
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It already looked pretty clear this season that the Buffalo Sabres may have won the JJ Peterka trade.
They sent Peterka in June to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for Josh Doan and Michael Kesselring. This season, Doan broke out.
Kesselring hasn't played much, but that hasn't even mattered in the evaluation of the deal.
The big difference has been between Doan and Peterka.
Doan, the son of long-time NHL player Shane Doan, has kept getting better. But with the Mammoth, Peterka has taken a big step back.
He didn't play a single second in overtime of the Mammoth's Game 4 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights a couple nights ago, and he appears to be dropped to the fourth line for Game 5.
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The trade involved JJ Peterka being sent to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for Josh Doan and Michael Kesselring.
Josh Doan has had a breakout season, contributing significantly to the Sabres' evaluation of the trade.
Michael Kesselring hasn't played much, but his limited participation has not affected the overall positive evaluation of the trade for the Sabres.
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The comments from Utah suggested that Peterka's benching was about how he was playing, but there wasn't more detail than that. The Mammoth said things had been addressed in the locker room and that would be that.
Whatever they addressed apparently wasn't enough to get Peterka back into a middle-six line at the moment.
He's still a young, talented player who can work out for Utah.
But right now, Doan is crucial for the Sabres in their own playoff push while Peterka is hardly making a noise for the Mammoth as they battle in the postseason, too.