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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Translation: ‘The Hamonic deal was bad because even though the team needed to make a deal for a defenceman, I know there must have been a better deal out there, even though I have no idea what.’
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See the thing is, a guy like MDZ could easily have filled the spot contrary to the narrative that we needed some burly defensive dman. MDZ signed for 3M x 2Y and would have fit perfectly beside Brodie or Hamilton as a #4. It's doubtful a MDZ-Brodie pair woild have been any worse and even it was, we would have continued to patiently build towards a better team while guys like Kylington, Andersson, and Valimaki would have naturally taken over. The picks would have further added to our asset pool instead of depleting from it.
Don't tell me we needed Hamonic, because we didn't. It was a GM trying to get a big, physical RHS (even though we had two RHD in Hamilton and Brodie) because he manufactured an imaginary need for one. He went after a guy coming off a miserable season and paid as if that were not the case.