Solid moves would include
- Joe Colborne for a 4th
- Kris Russel for a 5th
- Signing Dennis Wideman (this one is arguable)
- Signing Jiri Hudler
- The Bourque to Montreal deal
- The handling of the Tom Erixon situation and subsequent trade
Solid draft selections
- Sean Monahan
- Emile Poirier
- Jon Gillies
- Markus Granlund
- Tyler Wotherspoon
- John Gaudreau
Now at this point someone will come in and say "yeah but Monahan was the guy left - anyone could have drafted him". Well I guess, but you can't blame him for the bad stuff without crediting him for the good stuff regardless of how it went down.
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