When the Lightning are bar none the best scouting team in the NHL into the deep rounds, parting with 2 players who need time to get better and 2 future players is not any real measure of risk. Yzerman had an excellent year recruiting Callahan's old buddies from the Rangers and thereafter we did little until trading with them again for McDonagh. But Yzerman was just as much a glutton for futures as anything else. Adding the likes of Kunitz and Morrow was the order of the day to improve our club for a long time. 3 years ago we actually DID do nothing. You guys gotta remember during that time it was "Paper Tigers!" "Tampa's too SAWFT" and "LMFAO SWEPT!" as we flubbed had one of the most embarrassing exits in history to the CBJ, lost a Cup Final and 2 Game 7's in the ECF and missed the playoffs entirely in between it all.
Julien Brisebois learned a lesson and has now chosen violence for the 3rd straight season. When he wants something, he challenges the field to Russian Roulette and smiles as he loads 2 bullets and puts the gun to his head firing twice.