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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
At least Vegas is trading future for "high end" now pieces.
Tampa, despite having a top 2 or 3 team in the league, still had themselves two 1st round picks in this very deep draft coming up. I still can't believe they traded those picks for Goodrow and Coleman. I mean both players are playing a lot, and playing well in their current run, but it still seems to me like they overpaid when they didn't really have to.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The time is now for that team more than any team in the league.
Like you said, they had 2 firsts still. How is that even possible?
I think when you're the best team in the league, there is no better time to waste future assets to get the player you want.
Getting 2 specific guys who really do two specific things in order to push 2 other lesser guys down the lineup is a reasonable cost to pay. Coleman is giving them 13-18 solid minutes every night and being able to promote him up the lineup will be invaluable compared with a replacement like Stephens or Maroon.
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Coleman suprised me at first but when you dig into some of his defensive metrics it became clear they were trading for one of the best defensive forwards in the league, that is also a 20 goal threat, and he had one more season on his deal.
So that one made a little sense.
The Goodrow one still makes no sense to me though. Good role player but no way was he worth a 1st. He's not even a 10 goal guy, and he's not as good defensively as Coleman. Really he's a decent 4th liner, and most of his value is he only costs $925k.
Honestly based on production and advanced stats I'm not sure he's that much better than Jankowski. He's never stood out to me watching San Jose play either.