Feels like an awful lot of them have been clear wins one way that isn’t this one.
Any time you are giving up the best player, you “lose” the trade. Quantity seldom makes up for quality. The only caveat is when you deal a quality surplus for someone else’s quality surplus. I believe that is why Van is reluctant to move EP40. Can’t get enough back to justify it. It only makes sense when you are committing to an overhaul of your roster in style of play, i.e. finesse scoring to physical defense etc. winning and losing trades is somewhat meaningless without a vision for what you want your roster to look like and play like.This should pisss a few people off. I can't remember when we actually won a trade. 3 of our big name players that we traded actually went on to win a CUP. While we wait for our prices to mature or make the NHL.
It's been awhile. Maybe 14 years
Even Reinhart was not a miss - the miss was not resigning him. He went for a good prospect and a 1 that actually is a very good prospect. For an expiring RFA, that is normal compensation. Look at what buchnevich got in return in a very similar situation ( 2+ Sammy blais) and our return looks quite good.
Wouldn't it have been better to trade two 2nd for top 4 RD Marino than to use one of those 2nd for Malenstyn? We also had Robinson who could have been re-signed or found a similar guy in UFA. Adams is a terrible GM who doesn't understand how to properly build a team.
You’re making my exact point - yes it would have been better. That’s not losing trades it’s making the wrong ones
Well said on both parts. I think we won the Byram trade in a vacuum. We didn’t need him per say but he has more trade value. Also I am with you on Krebs, he plays hard and with a bit of grit. He rarely takes a shift off if at all.
As I said before, Krebs along with Benson and Kulich would have been my choices to be on the ice for the last 20 seconds of the Avalanche game because of their effort.
100% We got a goalie and a national anthem singing for nothing!
Imagine the difference a prime Peca would make to this roster.
I was high on Krebs but can't fathom the idea of being angry at him I understand wanting to upgrade him but it's not like he is a bad hockey player just not the 50 point two guy we wanted and he is still very young and as for tuch he has been a major bright spot people are getting mad at the players for not being Mackinnon, McDavid or kucherov TT and Thompson are both top line players and zucker found life again with us playing in a bigger role rather than being a bottom six guy and the 4th line plays hard we are one of the youngest teams and the reason we are dropping games again is due to inexperience and that doesn't magically happen in a year, it takes at least 4 to truly get confident in what you are doing especially at the NHL level. The young guys need to loosen the grip on their stick and remove themselves from the pressure of the 13 year drought it sucks I know, but the young guys inherited the orgs baggage and embraced the struggle to be the solution they underestimated how bad it was but with us harping and demanding this guy and that guy need to be moved dampens the morale and affects the mental space they need to shut the media and the fans out and opt out of the interviews and just focus on hockey and for the love of God please skip lockerroom cleanouts because at this rate the frustration and self doubt is starting to bubble out and it shows on the ice at times.
