drax0s
Registered User
Yeah, there's no way I consider trading DeSmith right now. A 1st round pick does nothing for this team.OK, fair. In the specific instance that you traded DeSmith for a 1st and then immediately, same-day traded that 1st for like a Boone Jenner or something to lock us down at C ... sure. That's probably an unlikely and complicated transaction but if you felt like you could turn some goalie depth into solving another position absolutely it would be considered.
The 98% of fans who would want to make that trade are wanting it to use the pick. And no GM ever is weakening his quality team at the deadline to add pickz.
Going into the playoffs with a 100+ point team and then losing because your #1 got hurt and you had to play an AHLer because you traded your excellent backup for futures would be a fireable offense.
If we didn't have DeSmith as our backup and had someone like Martin, Campbell or Skinner, we'd easily have 6-11 fewer wins this season which would put us near a sub 0.50 hockey team. We'd be wishing we could just dump a first to get back into a solid playoff position.
There's still too much season left to play. Even at the deadline with only 17 games left to play - I probably rather keep him around so we can rest Demko for the playoffs and keep him sharp.