Kyle Davidson was part of that organization.
The other point is irrelevant, we are talking hockey operations. They are terrible ethically, no question.
It's like claiming Detroit has a good front office because they won cups back with Datsyuk and Zetterberg. They are completely different regimes.
Anyways, venturing back to the topic. You can't just make a blanket statement and say, don't do this because Dach didn't work out and when pointing out how other teams have used the same principle to acquire players, say it doesn't count because X and X. No two situations are ever going to be the exact same.
The team should absolutely continue to look for value in young players that are being undervalued by their current teams. Chicago was happy to move on because they wanted to restart the whole thing and go all in for Bedard. It's why they traded Debrincat, it's why they traded Dach, it's why you can't find very many players, if any, that were there on that team prior to Bedard being drafted.
Newhook was dealt because they wanted value to bring in more experienced players to try to win another cup.
If you look at the Panthers, look how many of their key players were drafted or signed off FA. It's very few. A lot of their team was built off of shrewd moves. But even all of those moves don't pan out. Adam Boqvist didn't work. Lightning have done a lot of great moves like Nick Paul, Hagel, Goodrow, moves they were largely panned for.. but even they paid a shit load for Tanner Jeannot and he f***ing sucked for them.
We should be looking at the Donato's and Geekie's of the world. Are these guys unlocking something like Verhaege started to unlock for Florida, or did they just take advantage of top 6 minutes on bad squads and their production will go down when properly slotted?
Can't just only trade for established guys and sign established players off FA. You'll end up like Toronto with no cap space and no assets left to improve the roster long term. But even Toronto did find value in guys like Bunting off a scrap heap.
