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Old 01-21-2014, 03:30 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Canada 02 View Post
Brendan Morrow for Joe Morrow
Jagr for a 1st
Roy for a 2nd

one bad trade obscures some good work; easy to say in hindsight the Goligoski trade was bad. At the time, Goligoski was in his mid-20s, ended up with 45 pts for the season, up from ~35 the year before. He looked well on his way to developing into a top pairing d-man - the Stars had Eriksson and Benn on the left wing, and could afford to move Neal. It didn't work in the end
Are you sure those are Nieuwendyk moves? I think some or all of those are by his successor.

As for the Goligoski trade many people were questioning it immediately. No hindsight needed on that one although the hindsight makes it look more horrible.

Arguably both Niskanen and Neal are better than Goligoski which means it was an abysmally bad deal.
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