Micklebot
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- Apr 27, 2010
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Dzingel, Duchene, and Pageau all met or beat expectations for a return. People thought we'd have to pay way more than we did to dump Murray. I'd include Dadonov but Dorion had to lie to make that happen so maybe not a great example.It's not just Brown. Almost every player we've traded in the last 15 years has not returned as much as the fans on HF thought they would get.
Not sure how many times people need to be disappointed before expectations get tempered.
Part of the issue we've had is we often are trying to trade guys with NTC or in the case of DeBrincat, a defacto NTC where his QO would have given him an absurd 9m 1 yr deal, but that's not the case here