Ya we don’t even need the #2 dman he was. If he’s a #4 who can still move the puck, we’re back to having a pretty solid defense.
It at least made sense at the time when it sounded like we were going to spend to the cap last year, with some short term players, and then have the extra cap open for Connor’s extension this year. Then we just sat on the capspace and did nothing... it became really hard to defend when we wasted the cap flexibility
It made no sense. It never made sense. Even when that dumb F came out and tried to justify it, saying it was a move to free up cap for an "offersheet" that rarely happen, but the cap was fine that year anyways
Eberle was a proven 60 point player at the time, so where were they going to spend this extra cap? In FA,? To get another 60 point player?
The only ppl it made sense to was the faithful who wanted to run Ebs outta town, and by some misguided/blind logic, felt his secondary scoring(not to forget his corsi and ability to create prime scoring chances) was gonna be easily replaced w/ a few mediocre players peppered in
Here you have a market that nobody wants to be in, and we trade away a player that produces w/ multiple centers and on the 2nd pp. It was ioditic. Especially when the moron telling us it was a strategic cap move planning for years ahead, yet that moron is arguably the worst capologist in the history of the game
If the cap was tight that year..it made sense. If they actually had a realistic FA it made sense.
Losing him a year prior w/ no plan and a terrible excuse such as an "offersheet", months prior, dictating to the world, and more specifically his agent, the bank is open for business, no sense whatsoever