Trading top picks away when your team isn't ready to compete will do it.
Squandering picks like it's coins in your pockets at the casino too
Going back to the Pageau trade (last trade of the firesale), we SPENT :
7th OA pick
12th OA pick
5 x 2nd
2 x 3rd
2 x 4th
1 x 5th
1 x 6th
2 x 7th
to acquire :
Jakob Chychrun, Alex DeBrincat, Matt Murray, Derek Stepan, Travis Hamonic, Erik Gudbranson, Josh Brown, Austin Watson, Patrick Brown, Dylan Gambrell, Matthew Peca
Opposedly, during that period, we ACQUIRED :
1st (late in 2024)
2 x 2nd
2 x 3rd
3 x 4th
2 x 5th
3 x 7th
by trading :
Alex DeBrincat, Connor Brown, Evgeni Dadonov, Mike Reilly, Nick Paul, Logan Brown, Tyler Ennis, Zachary Sanford, Josh Brown, Erik Gudbranson, Tyler Motte, Christian Jaros, Braydon Coburn and to take on Paquette and Coburn contracts
We also spent 2nd + 3rd + 4th + 7th to move the last ~ 1.33 years of Zaitsev and 75% of the last 2 years of Murray contract
So during the rest of the rebuild after the firesale (Feb. 2020), the end result is
7th OA pick + 12th OA pick + 2nd + 2nd + 2nd + 6th
for
Jakob Chychrun + Travis Hamonic + 1st (late in 2024) + 4th + 5th + 7th
Some might say "ok it's not that bad" but you haven't made the playoffs yet so you're still rebuilding, you've traded some fading prospects (like Brown and Jaros), you could take on some contracts (although that was limited for us with the Melnyk factor) and you've also traded some guys you paid to acquire in the past (like DeBrincat, Connor Brown or Paul) and this is the NET result in asset management?
We'd be better off if we just kept Zaitsev and Murray instead of paying for not being even close to be a playoffs team in the end...
There has been a lot of talk about it but yet, I still don't think people realize how HORRIBAD Pierre Dorion was a a GM.
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