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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
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).
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They are pretty similar and close to a wash IMO. Sarich's big hits were far and few between. Both depth defenders who play a similar style. Sarich was scratched more than a couple times as well during his tenure here. O'Brien is younger. Overall a push.
I didn't think we'd be able to dump Tanguay's contract. Having Jones is not the worst thing in the world unless we start to get close to the cap. He'll keep us above the cap floor. Having one 4 million dollar bad contract as your only really bad contract is fine for us at the moment.
Clearly Feaster didn't really "win" that trade. But IMO we didn't really lose that trade badly either as I think Tanguay was going to be a bad influence in the room going forward and was going to hurt Hartley's ability to instill a new team identity and work ethic.