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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The closest equivalent move I can think of where it backfired is Karlsson to San Jose. They went for it, it clearly blew up and now they suck.
Karlsson was older and had a bigger contract so you could say the risk was higher there, San Jose also had a longer track record of being good but they were aging
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Their goalie also turned into a pumpkin, and their stalwart perrenial Olympian LD forgot how to play good.
It was also a chips-in on the Thornton/Pavelski window.
The interesting question is where they'd be if they didn't make that trade...it's easy to say they'd end up with Stutzle, but there are a lot of other things that might have happened instead (ie. they use some of those assets to acquire a different player).
The Karlsson trade is also an example where OTT got value from downside trade protection...if it were unprotected OTT would have picked 29th in 2019 instead of Stutzle (and SJ wouldn't have been able to use the 2019 1st to acquire Kane)