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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Iginla sure.. backed into a corner.
But he should have never traded Bouwmeester if that was the return. Bouwmeester was 29 years old with an additional year left. It's not proposterous to rebuild around Bouwmeester, Captain Giordano, Wideman and Brodie. Adding Russell to that would have sent Butler to Mars.
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Keeping Bouwmeester for one more year would have been terrible asset management. You think a 30 year old UFA would've stayed for a rebuild?
If the answer was no, and you held onto him for another year, we'd likely be slightly higher in the standings this year than now. So what would you have after this year? Maybe two first round draft picks this year with likely a slightly worse one for their own pick. Instead we got three firsts in a much, much deeper draft last year and lively a better one this year.
Totally the right move