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Originally Posted by strombad
He got a 30-40 point winger at 4 mil who is 5 years younger.
Tanguay had a modified NTC, had a history of instances that made people question his attitude through adversary, and took SO many nights off.
If you're asking me "Could we have gotten more?" Yeah, MAYBE. But not so much that it makes it a bad trade. You need to look at what the trade was (not rag on it because of some fantasy you've created about what it could have been) and quite frankly, I'd be shocked if you found more than a handful of people who would want Tanguay on this team over Jones.
At least Jones puts in an effort. Tanguay was embarrassing when he floated around the ice.
EDIT: and while Sarich is certainly much better than O'Brien this year, it's not like Sarich would've seen a whole lot of action.
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And Jones doesn't take nights off? He's wildly inconsistent. It was a bad trade regardless, they traded us their two buyout candidates for Tangs and Sarich, pretty brutal.
And no probably not, Tanguay gets a bad rap around here. But like I've already said a 50-60 point winger at 3.5m should get more back then that. Surely there was a team in the offseason that felt they needed offence (ex:Phoenix, Nashville, maybe Minny).considering the Bouwmeester, Iginla and Regher it's not surprising on the return. However I'm not going to change your opinion, and I doubt this will change yours.