David Jones is not David Moss 2.0. I would trade Jones for Moss any given day of the week. Moss was frequently hurt, but he actually scored. He was also very versatile. I was sad to see Moss leave, but he was just hurt too much.
As for the Tanguay trade - I find it difficult to defend it at all. Talk to any Av's fan, and they will tell you they assumed both Jones and O'Brien had negative value. Flames were so desperate for some beef, that Feaster ended up trading for these two. For Jones to be effective, he has to play a hard-nosed drive the net style - and when he does that, he ends up hurt. He was that way on the Avs, and so far he is that way on the Flames. He was great when he first arrived here, then he got injured, and now he hasn't been the same since, right? Yep, that's Jones for you. @ 4 million.
O'Brien was a healthy scratch. You can say O'Brien for Sarich was a push at best. Sarich brought leadership and more grit than O'Brien has ever brought so far, and better defending. Yep, he was older, but he brought those to the team more consistently than O'Brien. As a forward, you don't really have to keep your head up when O'Brien is on the ice. When does anyone remember a big check? He got into 1 fight thus far (and Sarich would fight too).
If Jones would play the way Jones does when Jones is effective, I would argue that this is a win for the Flames - at least given the need to jettison a 'sulking' player. Tanguay - even with the sulking - is a good distributor of the puck. Flames didn't have to be in such a rush to unload him - just like Cammalleri.
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