You know who also has 25 goals this year? Yegor Sharangovich...You act like we added 25 goals. We didn't. Sharangovich put up the same production therefore it's a wash. Even if Sharangovich only put up 15 goals we only added 10. There's no other way to spin this but we lost that trade. We traded Sharangovich for a 2025 2nd rounder. Sharangovich right now would be worth so much more. He also knows how to PK something we desperately need.
How much worse was it realistically gonna get than that, it's not like every team was gonna fill their winger need or we would have been forced to take a high school kid a la the Keith Kinkaid trade a few years back lol
What should Fitz have done?
He isn’t very good and wouldn’t have nearly as big of a role here. Not on the PP, not 5 on 5. Didn’t have a big role last year because he’s not very good.
I'm generally on that bandwagon, but a likely low second-rounder a year out for a guy who's a 30-goal scorer is underwhelming even by my comparatively (to the rest of the board) low expectations.
It obviously could’ve gotten a lot worse if you wait too long. Clearly nobody was overly motivate to get him. There’s a reason all the top options have been traded already (for mostly underwhelming returns). You can’t control the market.
Sharangovich may not be a needle mover but there's no denying he's much more valuable than a 2nd that's not until 2025. Sharangovich would fetch a 1st plus prospect quite easily. Fitz has lost not only the Sharangovich trade but this one. How do you retain 50% and not walk away with Montreals 2nd? That's baffling to me.
Montreal’s high 2nd pick this year would theoretically be more desirable in a goalie trade made at the draft.
seems like there aren’t many GMs in the league who are quite as easy to take advantage of as Tom Fitzgerald, so the argument holds up.You mean like a Tyler Toffoli?
That argument kind of falls apart with that, does it not?
Because it’s your best offer and nobody’s offering more. Not sure what’s baffling about that and as I said previously that 2025 2nd might actually be a much more tradeable asset this summer.
i think you’re discounting sharangovich a little bit. his shot is good enough to score in 1/5 shots or around that number. getting it on net is a different question but you make it sound like people can’t have sustainably effective shots and that anyone with an above average shooting percentage is just attributed to luck
Overpay to do what? The season is over. All we need is to get some dumb ass veteran goalie to get lit up and send Schmid back to Utica.
