Kerfoot was as bad as Rantanen if you want to use +/- as the metric.
Barrie produced the same as he did in Colorado when Babcock was fired.
Mac was not the same then as he is now, he was coming into his game but now it is a different level.
The other stuff can be argued about fit... but that is the same argument I am arguing as to why the Huberdeau trade sucked, so thanks for helping.
Kerfoot provided little offense while being worse defensively than Rantanen and getting PP1 time to prop up his stats. Of course you would ignore that.
Barrie didn't produce here, he had I believe 37 pts in 70 games. I get you love to cherry pick and try to weasel your way around to pretend your arguments are consistent but the truth is Barrie sucked hard over the course of 2020 with a barely 0.5ppg and our core guys not being able to be good enough to prop him up.
Mackinnon was a top 5 player back then and was the top 3 in 2018. Similar to now where he is 2nd or 3rd behind Mcdavid and competing with Kucherov
League scoring is higher now and the Avs are better team with no Barrie or Kerfoots there so his offense stands out more, but his absurd talent and prime was already 2 years in by 2019 summer when we acquired Barrie.
The huberdeau trade sucked post trade based on results that came. There was little risk at the time of trade and major flexability for treliving who could have signed 1 or both Huberdeau/Weeger, let them 1 or both walk to UFA or traded 1 or both
The barrie trade sucked as we got a guy we had little ability to extend had he even performed. If he performed and put up strong personal stats and we lost in R1 as is the case for the leafs, he walks to UFA and you have no RHD from the Kadri deal long-term.
We also locked in kerfoot who was ~30-35 pt guy for 4 years at 3.5M AAV. A guy who was poor defensively, had very little grit and intangibles, and could not priduce outside of 2nd Line LW spot for a few stretches a year.
Dubas kept around as a personal project to try and look better for a horrific trade that left the leafs with nothing of value and the Avs with a cup.
The Kadri trade was Dubas being desperate and making a rushed trade. It had very little upside for us.
You mentioned you want your GMs to be able to build for the LT and not only for 1 year at a time, but Dubas did exactly that He dealt one of our best trade assets who had 3 years term for a 1-year win now move in an hail mary attempt after 2019 embarassing loss to Boston.
Like always, you are never consistent and pretend to be unbiased when you are nothing but.