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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I’m hoping the Game Day Draft Thread tomorrow is absolutely epic - for happy reasons. We need us one o’ them “we just acquired Dougie Hamilton” style trades to happen!
…I actually just went back and read that Hamilton acquisition thread. So much optimism. |
The Hamilton acquisition was an unbelievable trade and great feeling. Coming off a 2nd round of the playoffs lead by Gaudreau and Monahan with Bennett looking so good as well. Hamilton added to the core had me believing this was going to be a quick and successful rebuild.
3 years later it didn’t look like this team was moving forward. Ferland had one year left and rumors he wanted a decent sized deal in the 5x5 range. Dougie was the first of our young core that would hit free agency in 3 years. Lindholm was 3 years younger than Ferland and Hanifin is 4 years younger than Dougie. The rebuild kind of reset and the team took off for a year and actually made the playoffs in consecutive years. Couldn’t win a round and sputtered out this year.
Time for another transformational offseason and I hope we are all pumped by the upcoming additions. Huge offseason ahead