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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
What a weird list, Bouma is on it but Wideman and Russell are not? The list is more like in order of importance
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I basically took our top line (Hudler, Monahan, Gaudream), top pairing D (Gio, Brodie) then picked the most important player outside of those 5 for regular season (Bouma) and playoffs (Ferland)... its all open to opinion though, its fine if you wish to list the entire roster. I didn't choose to.
I thought about listing Russell, but he was acquired during a weird time (March 2013 - Augest 2013) where Feaster went from being in the news to a ghost, and coupled with the fact that one of Burke's players (Joe Colborne) was traded that summer, I thought it had Burke's finger prints all over the Russell and Colborne trade. Also vaguely remember it being said that acquiring Colborne and giving him a chance was a "favour" from Burke... but obviously neither of these are official without any actual proof.
Erixon for two 2nd round picks was a great trade.. forgot to mention that. Probably the 3rd best move he made, behind signing Hudler (best) and bringing in Hartley (2nd best)
Can't really give credit to scouting, but I'm glad that he couldn't keep us forced us into a rebuild through his trades that allowed us to draft 6th overall and 4th overall without doing a "tank" job... while it was an unintentional rebuild, I'm sure glad we did rebuild.