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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
I'd worry about upgrading my defence after I aquired the requisite top center every team needs to be a true contender. They only become available on the trade market every 5-10 years, I would've moved heaven and he'll to make that happen. Acquiring another top 4 dman to replace Regehr would've been easy by comparison, they become available all the time. It seems like half a dozen move at/near the trade deadline each year. Sure you might not get a stud like Reggie, but it would've been possible to find someone serviceable at a decent price.
Besides is this really that bad?
Hamrlik-Phaneuf
Leopold-Warrener
Ference-???
Marchment
Fill in the ??? with someone competent and I see no problems with that, especially given how Iggy/Thornton would've been giving goalies everywhere PTSD on a nightly basis.
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Besides Chara (and maybe Boyle) who was available? I guess if you could have fortold the future, would have known Willie Mitchell could have been one, but at the time, Regehr was good enough to make Team Canada World Cup team, so he was one of the top 6 Canadian defenseman in the NHL..... not easy to replace.
That lineup is pretty bad because Phaneuf was playing sheltered minutes, so Leopold-Warraner (or Leopold-Sarich) is our top pairing D - thats pretty ugly.
Also - trying to remember timelines of the deal, but if you make the deal for Thornton (Regehr/Kobasew/??) then you don't make the deal for Tanguay or Langkow. So, which line looks better?
Tanguay/Huselius - Langkow/Conroy - Iginla
Regehr-Aucoin
or
Huselius/Moss - Thornton - Iginla
Leopold-Aucoin
???
Not really that straight forward of an answer.