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Originally Posted by ColoradoFlamesFan
While it's easy to look back and be critical of some of the moves Jay made, you could also argue that he made "BOLD MOVES". Moves that were promised up north and never materialized. The ROR attempt while misguided and risky, had it worked, would have/could have been something special.
I'm not trying to say anything more than we need to only look at Edmonton or even Winnipeg as examples of teams that tend to "sit on their hands".
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It would have been special indeed. We wouldn't have Monahan or Bennett and we would have had yet another reason not to rebuild. Heck, Iginla may have even stayed on with his new number one centre. In which case we would have kept Bouwmeester as well and probably never made the Tanguay trade.
If it all turned out we could still be watching a team mail it in every night. Meanwhile we would be down 4 first round picks (our 2 for O'Reilly plus the ones we didn't get in the Iginla and Bouwmeester trsdes) so we would be concerned we don't have a farm system. Plus, no cap space to fix things.
That would be great.