Not that this even necessarily changes anything, but we did flip Sunny for a 4th rounder which turned out to be Larry Keenan. So technically we end up with Keenan from the Leddy trade.
Why did Yzerman trade for him in the 1st place if he, we and the whole league knew everything about him?
maybe, just maybe because there is something wrong with our team. Coaching, probably? Roster composition, maybe?
Walman had 8 career NHL points when we acquired him. He was hardly mentioned in our trade thread and the vast majority of Blues fans don't look like they were concerned losing him at the time.
Looks like a cap dump to me. Leddy was TRASH. Is another man's treasure - Blues suck this season and went from a 109 point season to 81 point season after Leddy's first season with the blues. DNQ every season thereafter, and now they suck just as bad as Detroit right now. If Leddy was supposed to be their saviour, then he's doing it wrong!
I didn't like and still don't fully understand it. But his worst trade was to bring in leddy in the first place. He over paid for a mediocre, past his prime d-man, who definitely didn't want to be here. And of course, had he not done that this whole question is moot.
Not really, unless you're cool with... something made Walman persona non grata in the locker room and Yzerman expedited the departure because free agency was around the corner. No one is going to come straight out and say how and why he had to move, but there were vague comments about "some people weren't on the same page as the rest of the team, and that was dealt with in the off season." during training camp. Very little had to do with on ice issues, but more along the lines of getting back on the ice issues.
Well he’s gone - wonder if Yzerman is happy now that he has the locker room attitude he wanted.
If we had 4-6 good defenseman, I don't think anyone would really care. I think everyone's just frustrated because he was on our team, so were Chiarot, Petry and Holl. We had every opportunity to evaluate these players and we ended up choosing to pay to get rid of the best of the bunch. To me it just speaks to poor talent evaluations and poor priorities. I fear those problems haunting the team going forward.
No he paid to get him of him because he had off ice issues and he for whatever reason needed the cap space there and then..
I get that it was because of the locker room and cap space. To me that's having the wrong priorities. If we evaluated Chiarot, Petry, Holl and Gustafsson to be acceptable defenseman for 4/6 spots in our lineup, then that's a bad evaluation. If we thought that having those guy's personalities over Walman's was a higher priority than Walman's play over theirs, that's the wrong priority. We chose the worse players and we did it because we thought they'd be better for our locker room.
It’s nepotism. Steve has his brother Chris yzerman running the pro scouting in Detroit. If it was anyone but Stevie doing this in Detroit the fans would want heads to roll, and they should. I just cannot believe how apathetic and tame this fanbase has become. We are an original 6 team, some of the most decorated history in the sport came from our franchise. How is this acceptable. This isn’t just losing its incompetent. And nothings being done about it. Like how in the world is Lalonde still a coach.
