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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I disagree.
Treliving would have been well served dealing picks for either Schenn or Ryan O'Reilly in 2017/18, or even both.
We traded one anyways for Hamonic, and the other ones (Valimaki and Pelletier) have done nothing so far to help this team.
But if we currently had ROR on this team instead of Lucic (because Neal was signed the summer of 2018 and wouldn't have been had ROR been acquired) I'd wager we'd be in much better shape right now.
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You trade 1st round picks when you’re trying to get an already-good team to take that next step.
This team has never shown itself to be one extra player away from winning rounds in the playoffs - they get obliterated in every seven-game series where they don’t get to play 35-year old Sedin twins and Eddie “the Legend” Lack.
ROR doesn’t make up for Monahan and Gaudreau’s complete inadequacy. I like ROR/Lindholm/Backlund/Ryan a lot more than what we have now, but it isn’t enough.
We need new top players. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs.