honestly I just have this gut feeling that Kerfoot and McCann are both going to be Seattle Kraken by Tomorrow. They reportedly had been very high on both of the players, and would have under normal circumstances been able to select both player without any price. But now that we have both players, there is going to be a cost to acquire them both. I think in Seattle's mind these were 2 players they likely had penciled into their Mock's for a while now, and have likely orchestrated their cap management around low AAV deal like these 2. That said, If we would have protected them both under a 7F + 3D scenario, it would have only made the return that much greater. I really don't like the current protection scheme that this management group has implemented. I am usually very complimentary of this management group, but this is unacceptable asset management IMO. Timothy Liljegren is only a marginal step backwards from Holl at the current moment, but at some point he is going to have to shit or get off the potty. This was the perfect succession plan to leave Holl exposed, who has completely max'd out his potential. Yet we expose 2 very useful depth forwards at low AAV's and from a positional weakness. I've tried to understand this scheme from another lens, but I will never get it personally. The logic of losing McCann is like losing Hallander and a 7th is completely f***ing stupid IMO. We won the McCann trade from the inception of the trade. We immediately got better with that addition. That was the roster. McCann was part of the roster. We don't lose Hallander and a 7th if they select McCann, we lose a player that should have been playing games for the Leafs next year. I'd say usually Dubas and comapny play 3D Chess while others are playing checkers, but they either do not value McCann at all, or they completely missed the mark on this protection list. Hopefully this begins to make more sense in the coming days
