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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
We are supposed to believe that the super aggressive and trade happy GM swung and missed 5 or 6 times on good, young goalies, but is somehow able to nail big trades for forwards and defenders with regularity? I don't buy that for a second.
For me, the body of work indicates a lack of value towards the position on his part. This equates to a possible attitude of why pay the higher price for more touted guys when we can get Hiller, Elliott, Smith for pennies on the dollar. You get what you pay for and now his team is going to be severely handcuffed by incompetent net minding again except he finally has the right mix upfront to have a top seeded team with even adequate net minding.
How he has not learned from this by now is beyond me and bordering on insanity if he does not address this within the next number of games. You simply have to step up and pay a high price at this point to upgrade or it will be a pretty strong signal to the team that you aren't giving them what they need to win. Given the historical fragility of this group, I certainly wouldn't want to go too far down that road this season.
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A lot easier to trade for forwards and D. Hundreds of them there. There are only 31 starting goalies in the NHL.