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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Well, not exactly. Duchene was moved because he requested a trade, and that didn't happen until 2017. O'Reilly was traded in 2015, and Tyson Barrie was moved just last year. It is more accurate to say that Colorado moved these players because they could afford to, after having drafted the likes of MacKinnon, Raantenen and Makar.
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They didn’t know what they had in Rantanen and Makar at that point (Rantanen in particular has surpassed all expectations). There was a lot of turmoil and anger in Colorado at that time. Players seemingly didn’t want to play there, MacKinnon wasn’t progressing as hoped, and Sakic was getting roasted by pundits. There was the whole looking forward to partying in Vegas schmozzle. Things turned around over the next year or so, but at the time it was looking as though the rebuild had failed.