Yes if Tkachuk or Mangiapane were “untouchables”, that is straight up idiotic.
Depends what the rest of the package is obviously but I think there is some insane bias towards our own players. Again this is Jack Eichel not third line scrub. Understand there is some injury risk but, no, still idiotic. You take the risk to get a legit #1 since we will never get one in a draft unless we are literally last place.
It is so frustrating this was such an important opportunity and we waived on acquiring the type of asset this team has not had in 30 years so we can keep Tkachuk who is a guy that will leave and has a train wreck qualifying offer or Mangiapane who while emerging is nowhere close to a Jack Eichel.
This is looking like mismanaged assets, with no further information about what went down, no matter how you look at it. Apologists will be out in force but the truth is if you won’t give up Mangiapane for Jack Eichel you should probably not be GM. Way too conservative.
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