If the rumoured Seguin trade is true, 2013 6th overall and Gaudreau, then it was a mistake not to make that trade at the time IMO.
In hindsight you can look at it and be glad that we didn't make the trade but without the benefit of hindsight it's a different story. At the time of the trade we didn't know we would be getting Monahan or how well he would pan out, you have to give that pick the value of an average 6th overall, we could have just as easily gotten Lindholm if Carolina took Monahan. Also at the time we had no guarantee that Gaudreau was going to sign, he signed almost a year later and could have went UFA if he wanted to.
Iin an alternate universe where we lost Gaudreau to UFA the trade could easily have been Seguin (with no or little injury history) for Lindholm. That would be the kind of trade we would be lamenting that we let get away, people would be trashing Feaster for missing the boat.
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