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Originally Posted by Robbob
There are real life examples already. When Seth Jones was traded for R. Johanson. It was rumored that the Oilers were in on it but needed to add (draft pick) to RNH to make it work. They believed RNH was better than Johanson.
The other one was the Hamilton trade. Boston wanted a 1st and Nurse for Hamilton. Chiarelli said no and he would just offer sheet Hamilton. Instead they ended up with Griffin Reinhart for that 16th and 33rd pick.
How much better would they be if their back end had Hamilton and Jones. Hall would have been kept as a there would not have been a need to trade for Larsson.
Granted not even those trades cold save the Oilers. Nothing can.
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It’s so true. Chia had one chance to gut their team & sell high.
For some reason he decided to wait a season. Even if they don’t get Jones for RNH they probably could have had Larsson in 2015, kept Hall or recycled him for more if he had to go, maybe even Johansson?
But he didn’t.
They evaluate Nurse, and every other player, as the best case scenario of the player, not what the player actually is. They do this with their own players, free agents, & players on other teams.
When it’s completely obvious that the player doesn’t meet their sky high expectations the team/fans/media sewer him and blame the player.
When they evaluate prospects... it’s even worse. Even McDavid is ONLY meeting their expectations.
It’s an institutionalized evaluation process of suck for them.
Nicholson can NOT change it because he was systematically chosen by the very process he’s hoping to eliminate. Even if he identifies it, he’ll look himself in a mirror & say... “nope can’t be that, but I’ll ask Kevin for a second opinion.”