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Old 03-28-2018, 12:50 PM   #418
dirk diggler
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler View Post
You are wrong for a few simple reasons:

(A) 3 fairly high picks are 3 shots to hit a home run. We know Hamonick is a complementary piece and not a franchise difference maker. If you keep trading picks for mediocre players you will always have a mediocre team

(B) If you are set on trading those picks and really wanted to go for it, it turns out you could have added Stastny and Kane and still had a 2nd left. Picks are currency and you certainly could have done better than a mediocre defenseman, especially given the D depth we already have

(C) If things go really ill, Treliving will forever be known as the idiot that traded Niedermayer for Kurvers and added 2 2nd round picks for good measure.
This is the trade I thought about when the trade was made. at least with Hamilton, you knew what pick you were giving up. Sweet Lou really fleeced the Leafs on that one. Terrible trade, depending on what the pick is, this trade might define BT, much like Risebrough trading Gilmour.
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