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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It's hindsight because Hamonic wasn't as good as many thought he would be and Schenn was better.
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I would agree with that (that how they played can appear to be hindsight). But I would still say that Brad values the wrong things in my opinion. That off-season he wanted a fifth top 4 dman instead of a 5th top 6 forward. I would have made a different call, both then and now. This team, then and now, had limited depth up front, but we always go above and beyond to ensure that we have copious amounts of depth on the backend. The next season we had to trade a perfectly serviceable nhl dman in Brett Kulak because we ran out of space for him in part because we traded for Hamonic and re-signed Stone. To the best of my knowledge we have never had to trade a NHL forward because we ran out of room for him during the Treliving years.
And what is not hindsight is that both deals were available and he picked the dman over the forward for the same price and 3.3 million in additional cap hit over the next 3 years.