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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
That was contractual reasons though, he refused to sign here and was never going to sign here, and publicly admitted as much.
The last real "big" future piece they traded was the first they traded for Hamonic, and that was horrible.
Really the issue in the past was more that we've missed on goalies than we've traded them away.
Kidd over Brodeur
McDonald over Demko
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Kidd over Brodeur was the right call at the time. Kidd was one of the best prospects to come along in a long time. And at the time he was more highly touted than Brodeur.
Didn't work out that way - but the Kidd over Brodeur thing is one of the classic examples of the benefits of hindsight.