i'd take my chances on ouellet and/or marchenko.
even if they don't live up to the challenge, they gain valuable experience, will be more ready next year and we don't have to insert 3 rookie dman into the lineup in same year or lose them for little/nothing.
we already know what quincey brings. and that's not enough. he's not going to get better anymore.
his contract says that he's not going to get beaten by kids for roster spot.
So one rookie and Kindl and Lashoff on the bottom grouping? That makes the team much, much better.
I was fine with waiving him considering where he was on the depth chart, and I would think his career as a whole shows you it wasn't really any loss for him to have been waived.
I defended the trade at first, but in hindsight think it was a big blunder all things considered.
Ahhhhh..... Well. Where's the "let's play the kids and dump the grizzled old farts attitude now?"
When Quincey was waived, he had a contract worth ~$500K, young, good size, etc. Instead, Kenny decided to keep Cheli around, and Lilja and even Lebda. Cheli didn't really do much that year, but signing the old guys certainly put a strain on the cap that year. Oh, and Meech. Some spectacular projection of talent there....
Cheli played about 20-ish games. Quincey went on to LA and played 72 games there, had a good season, iirc. Better than the flotsam the Wings chose to keep over him.
THAT was the original problem. Loyalty to the geezers, and totally blowing it as far as how these guys would pan out as NHL'ers. Ericsson was finally getting groomed, but if Holland really believed in development, he would have kept both guys. It's really the only thing that works under a cap system, or you end up like Washington and just throw money at mediocre talent.
Dan Boyle was dumped by the Sharks because they needed better D than he offered to contend in the West. Now we're all thinking he was some kind of savior.