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Originally Posted by The Cobra
It's not like there was, at the time, a reasonable alternative to not betting on Johnny and Monny.
In retrospect, trading Johnny and Monny are their big years was the way to go. But who would have thought that was smart at the time?
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Yeah especially since it looked like the team was filling out to help them.
They had Hamilton on the roster, Fox, Andersson, Valimaki and Kylington in the pipeline.
Up front they needed to supplement and build out the forward group so he moved Hamilton and Fox (both of whom wanted out) for Lindholm and Hanifin, drafted Tkachuk and had some development wins in Mangiapane and hopefully Dube.
But Monahan gets hurt, the league to some degree figures Gaudreau out, and Bennett continues to stagnate.
Not hard to see an alternate reality with a pretty well built hockey club.