The ROR debacle wasn't a debacle because of the technicality. It was a debacle because the team was trading a top end pick in a very deep draft for a relatively unproven and incredibly expensive center to try to hoist them into the playoffs. Again, a strategy that has repeatedly failed over the past 4 years.
That move was just damning. No competent management team makes a move like that.
The technicality and that fallout was just icing on the cake.
We would have been watching us continue to flail while Colorado enjoyed Monahan or Lindholm on their roster for 7+ years.
|