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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I doubt the owners are specifying to trade picks but I can imagine that they are placing short term goals on the management team, which then would create the behaviour we’ve seen. Short term goals and thinking plus being asset poor means the gm has been driven to use what he can to plug.
It’s the entire strategy that has been wrong for decades
And again I don’t know why you continue to compare to Toronto given the advantages they’ve enjoyed.
Feaster isn’t a fair comparison as the team was actually rebuilding at the time. Indeed Sutter is a more fair comparison and he too used picks to fill holes.
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That may well be the case, let's assume it is true and owners are placing short term goals ahead and order that as a philosophy. Bras almost exclusively trades picks. His list of NHL player for NHL player trades is the following
Lucic trade
Lindholm and Hanifin trade
Lazar trade if you are being generous
3 player for player trades in 7 years.
Sutter may well have had the same orders, but he did manage to accumulate late round picks and traded fewer high round picks. But Darryl also made NHL player for NHL player trades. As a comparison Darryl made 20 NHL player for NHL player trades in 8 seasons. Those included some major moves as well (Langkow trade, Tanguay trade, Warrener trade, Simon trade, Jokinen trade, Phaneuf trade, Huselius trade). Not all his trades were good but he seemed to have the ability to trade player for player and not just draft picks for player.