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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
It was worse than that IMO.
He overvalued Hamonic, who in my view is an average NHL defender and isn’t the difference between winning and losing most nights.
He undervalued the picks he gave up, overestimating the team he had assembled. A devastating loss of premium draft picks (12,43 and 57) for a team that still needed to be building talent.
The cap space benefit shouldn’t have been worth that much to a team still developing and was wasted on overpriced UFA’s and buyouts.
He was skinned by one of the worst GM’s in the league.
I don’t know what words to use but it was bad.
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Exactly how I feel. I thought I was being level headed calling it a fiasco. Disaster was the first word that came to mind. Just a devastating blow so early into a rebuild to spend that kind of pick capital on a total non-difference maker. Worse than that, because of how high he plays in the lineup, he actually hurts the team and his partner. If he was 3rd pairing guy they signed in ufa to that contract I would still be annoyed. But to add 3 high picks on top of it? Gross.
We talk about lack of assets and such but that trade is a major reason why. Others were death by a thousand cuts, Hamonic was on a whole other level.