Horak wasn't a natural RWer so suggesting this trade demolishes our RW depth is a bit much. Wouldn't surprise me if he moves back to centre for the Oilers.
At some point we'll have to play some wingers on their off wing. But that isn't totally uncommon in the NHL. Hudler is a leftie who's played a lot of RW for us and has looked just fine doing it.
And of course we can always trade somebody at some point for a natural RWer.
Ashasx seems to have the typical HF mentality going in this thread, whoever gets the prospects wins. Reliable defensemen are quite valuable so I think we got great value for Horak (a guy I really like) and Brossoit. Two decent but expendable prospects for a legit defenseman. Now we don't have to prematurely put guys like Wotherspoon and Sieloff into the fire before they're ready.
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