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Originally Posted by Monahammer
This was the point that I agreed with Flash on- and I still think it stands. If we were willing to trade Brodie for help up front last off season why did we stop when the Kadri trade fell through? There must have been some other options out there? Hell the panthers moved Vinny Trochek (very similar to Kadri imo), why weren't we in on that one?
We were willing to trade a top 4 d, when our preferred deal fell through we just capitulated and ran with the same roster. That was a huge mistake.
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I think people oversimplify how hard it is to actually make a trade in the NHL right now.
I don't think the Kadri trade fell through and he just went "Aw shucks that didn't work, guess I'll take the rest of the summer off".
Personally I'd rather he not go make a bad trade just because the preferred trade fell through. Honestly if there was a trade that made the team better on the table I think he'd have made the deal, it just didn't happen.
Look at other trades that occurred around the same time and what d-men/centers moved in deals....I'd rather they keep Brodie than they go move him in a deal for Nikita Zaitsev and Connor Brown for example just because the first trade failed (Those were the two other players the Leafs moved this offseason).