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Originally Posted by Toonage
Its easy to look back on players that were let go before they came into their own and suggest it was a bad move. Of course it was in hindsight. But the St. Louis that they let walk wasn't the same St. Louis that won the cup. The Giguere they let go wasn't the MVP from 2003 etc. At the time these were players that didn't demonstrate (I assume, at least to the management then) that they were going to be anything more than they already were. What the current management can certainly take away from that is to be more patient as you don't really know what you might have, and that it could take more than just a few years.
That all being said, if you're going to move any prospect, get something of value back. Obviously.
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Button didn't give any of those players a chance. He lost Kuba, bought out St. Louis, protected Brathwaite over Giguere and traded Giguere before he had seen any of them in a training camp. Inexcusable. He didn't even have a clue what we had. In hindsight just abysmal timing by the owners firing Coates and hiring Button right before an expansion draft.