Or maybe you can be the mature and enlightened individual that you're trying to prove you are to us with your babble in your nonsensical trade proposals and let it go?
I got pilloried for a year and a half on Kreider.
I'm not gonna put everyone through a year and a half gloat fest, but I will make sure that my harshest detractors, who said there was no possible way I could be right, and some who were extremely rude in the process, have to get their comeuppance first.
THEN it can rest.
We are most of the way there, it remains to be seen as I disagreed w/BoomBoomGeofrion about whether or not Kreider, based on his upside and potential, was more valuable than Stepan.
It took real balls, not the artificial kind, to make that call.
It is a little to close to claim victory there, though I expect I will be able to by next season at the latest, if not before. Consider...
While praise for Stepan is in order for upping his game beginning about a year ago, Stepan can only do so much to elevate the play of his linemates. For example, Zuc has had problems w/his game prior to this year. While some of that is a deserved credit to him for improvement, he (Zuc) is not noticeably faster, stronger, etc; yet his presence on offense especially is more effective, pushing even dominant. Reason? Kreider.
Kreider is so fast and gathers extra attention, it opens up ice space making Zuc and the C pro tempore that much more effective. When Zuc plays with Hags, it's similar. Hags has Kreider like speed but not strength in presence, but Kreider-Hags (or vice versa) = 1 -2 punch. We wear out inferior opposition, and hold our own with better teams.
Kreider, with a better, smarter system, is allowing us to dominate time of possession and shots and play in general on most occasions.
Stepan, yes contributes.
But apparently not as much across the board to the same degree.
Be that as it may.
We have time to see how that shakes out.
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As to my " babble in your nonsensical trade proposals", a lot of this is stuff you just flat out disagree with, which is fine. You won't be the first or last.
But you are erroneously speaking authoritatively, even if this is something, ironically, you choose to accuse me of.
I never say anything I propose is correct because, ego sum, I am the one who is saying it. It is not by fiat. It is a matter of the merits based on facts, which when absent we estimate.
I recently said one of several ways to go relative to MDZ, in response to a poster who pretty much asked how does MDZ get you EKane, that a package of Staal + MDZ + Brassard for EKane + Redmond + Postma + rights to Burmistrov, was found to be extremely tempting, given Jets need for LD, and only being non-committal to actually move EKane, not value, was cause of hold up.
Whether or not that is our
best deal is fair and open to debate.
It is a reasonable ? to ask if that is a
good deal.
But you immediately shot it down, asking who would play LD?
McD
Moore
Connor Allen
and likely others further on the depth chart, not counting possible additions.
This was not enough for you, insufficient in your OPINION.
That assessment BY YOU is NOT a statement of FACT.
You then had to make a snide remark, like there was no possible way this could be correct.
You completely rejected the added value of adding a difference maker F, what that does in terms of goals scored, what that does in time of possession in the offensive zone.
It's like when I wanted to do Hall + for Girardi + Staal as a matched pair +
But no, we couldn't dare break up our vaunted defense, even for a top stud we desperately needed at LW in Hall.
Of course, Oiler fans didn't want to move the face of the franchise --- fair enough. I again bring up, as a fan, true, you never want to trade Ted Williams. But if Ted Williams gets you Mickey Mantle AND Whitey Ford, and that pitching let's you be competitive, you have to ask if you wanna do it if the end goal is victory, not player attachment.
Oiler fans are still holding on to Hall, though less tightly then before.
In any event,
It is NOT as cut and dried as you claim it is.
You laugh, and you mock. Do so at your own risk, what goes around comes around.
One of these days, if for no reason other than inevitability alone, a megadeal will happen similar enough to one I proposed and we'll have an opportunity to consider the results.
In the mean time, trades aside, you can look at my generally good track record --- on non trade issues, about our players, and approaches, about Miller, Kreider, Talbot, and losing Torts.
Again, you'll always have Tysen Dowzak to hang over me.
But not as much else as you'd think or you'd like.
