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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Which is frankly a dumb way to look at it. It's irrelevant if a pick or a player exceeds the recognized value at the time of the trade. Kipper did not have a lot of value at the time of the trade. The 2nd rounder SJ used to pick Vlasic did not have much value at the time of the trade. It wasn't a fleecing by anybody.
Otherwise you have the absurd scenario where if the Flames trade Backlund tomorrow for a 2nd round pick, and that 2nd round pick turns out to be a Hall of Flames defenseman, then that's a fleecing by Treliving. It wouldn't be. A 2nd round pick is extremely unlikely to turn out to be a better player than Backlund. Trading him for a 2nd round pick would be a bad trade.
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Some of the reactions around the league are pretty telling for how thoroughly Treliving skinned Sweeney on that trade in terms of percieved value, even if he did gift Dougie to us as an insult to Chiarelli.
- An anonymous GM was surprised Dougie was even available at all
- Many other fanbases going "how weren't we able to beat that package?"
- Boston fans rioting online
- Fierce Boston rivals like Montreal, Toronto were actually expressing their sympathies
- Not one, not two, but three threads on HF in under an hour
- "EPIC FAIL" Boston newspaper headline splash of Sweeney
I'm not sure if there was a similar reaction to older trades (I'm a 1990 birthday) but I don't recall the Kipper trade making a big splash like Dougie did.