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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
and again
Hodgson is so bad defensively that on the worst team in the league he was deemed too big of a liability at center ice
so whether you can argue they should have made a different trade with that asset I can understand, but Hodgson as he is currently is never going to be a top 9 center on a team competing for the Stanley Cup
those teams don't have liabilities like him in their own end playing big minutes
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And again... the goal of the NHL to win the Stanley Cup, not to trade your best asset for a project player while you're in the middle of your 2-3 year window.