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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
This is about confidence, not about trade history. I'm of the view that Sutter literally saved the franchise with his early trades, most notably Kiprusoff. But after the Phaneuf and Kotalik disasters, I had 0 confidence in him. The earlier trades meant squat.
Similarly, I don't think that the Glencross trade, as good as it was four seasons ago, has any bearing on my confidence today. I think he's been an average 3, but if someone viewed him at a 2 or 4, I think that's fair.
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Not a bad way of looking at it ... but to bring this full circle is the Lazar trade the one that has you worried about the man from a confidence standpoint?
I certainly wasn't trumpeting old roster shedding deals as a reason that you can't give the guy less than a four, but to hold the Lazar trade as some sort of maginot line didn't make much sense to me.