Re: Bourque trade
Cammalleri was in Montreal for 2 years. Despite his injuries he was one of their top players and was their top scorer in both the playoffs (in fact had double as many points as the next top scorer in the last postseason appearance with them). He called out the team for losing, anywhere else that would have been a good thing instead Montreal shipped him off.
Bourque was declining much faster than Cammalleri and had 16 points in 38 games (35 point pace over 82 games) with 4 years left on his contract after the season he was traded. Today he is on pace for 25 points and they still have 2 more years left on his deal.
You got to factor in the 2 years of Cammalleri's much higher play than Bourque even if it ultimately didn't matter when assessing the trade and maybe more importantly their value now. If Calgary is capable of snagging a 1st for Cammalleri this season I wouldn't have issue calling them the victor of the trade without factoring in what becomes of Fucale, Ramo, Culkin and Holland.
Not that there isn't a lot of other things Feaster messed up on, but I don't particularly have a problem with this trade's "value".
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