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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Well I’m pleasantly pleased with today for a few reasons:
1.) Very rarely does the team who makes a huge deadline acquisition do damage in the playoffs. It’s usually the depth pickups (Fantenberg).
B.) Losing a cost controlled, likely future top 2 defenseman for what is now an overpaid winger who’s contract ends at 35 would be asinine.
III.) Getting Mark Stone would all but assure losing Matthew Tkachuk who is younger with a higher ceiling. Sorry guys, no one is talking Neal’s contract to free up cap room.
Four.) As for the aforementioned Neal, if he can turn it up down the home stretch/playoffs we’ve just acquired a deadline acquisition for zero assets. Even Czarnik has been ramping up lately.
Yep, I think Tre was pretty much perfect today.
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I agree, and it is kind of splitting hairs to find faults.
Is a 4th too much for Fantenberg, when Kislevich and Beaulieu went for 6th and 7th respectively - maybe slightly, but a 4th vs 5/6 round is marginal and if that's the cost of your guy, so be it.
Considering the crazy prices for top 6 talent, involving Valimaki/Andersson level prospects, you then have to move to the next bracket. Treliving made the call that an extra D is worth more than adding to the 3rd line (Brassard, Johansson level player). I would have liked an extra forward, but this is more a vote of confidence in Czarnik and Neal coming back from injury
At the end of the day, this team is playing well, #2 in the league and #1 in the conference. Not a good chance that a rental makes enough of a shift to warrant what was paid.