By trading Caggiula, adding Petrovic, Manning and attempting to trade Spooner, Chiarelli is essentially going all in on being a big, physical, heavy team. Basically the opposite of what the rest of league is doing by going smaller, faster and more skilled.
It's an interesting decision regardless of how it turns out. But you can't help think that trading away a close friend of McDavid's for a player who broke his collarbone is going to be ok in his mind. Too bad McDavid isn't more of a primadonna because I love to see a trade request after the season if their team missed the playoffs.
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