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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
yes they are good players, no one is doubting that
putting them in a good franchise and on a good team works wonders for guys like that
those two in Columbus wouldn't have let to a cup, look at how much Carter pouted, you would have had 2 guys doing that, they didn't want to go to a rebuild
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You could say the same about the vast majority of players in their prime.
But, would it have made Columbus better? Short term or long term?
As I said before, I dont think it matters either way, Columbus is garbage, be it Maclean's fault, which a lot of it was, or Howson's, it really depends on what the goal was.
If their mandate was to be exciting and win games in order to establish their STH and fanbase and make the team viable then he probably should have done.
If their mandate was to win the Stanley Cup in 3-5 years then he probably should have done it.
In the end though, it was selling future for a hopeless present, even if that future might also have been hopeless sometimes you have to take that in order to establish the franchise on some relatively level financial ground.