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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
There’s a way to gamble and lose where you don’t make the organization, and more importantly the city, look like a joke.
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Why does the city look like a joke?
Would people have rather that we traded Gaudreau for the 24th overall pick, a prospect and a 3rd round in the 2021 offseason.
I don't. We would have not had as good a 2021-2022 season and likely just finish 3rd in the division and lose in the first round. Yay.
Would people rather we traded at the deadline when we were leading the division and he was having a potential Hart candidate season?
I wouldn't have - this at least gave us a chance to make a playoff run and still sign Gaudreau at the end of the year. It sucks that he left but it really was a 50/50 decision.
People overvalue how much the late first we could have received for Gaudreau in the 2021-22 offseason would mean to us.
We still wouldn't have Gaudreau. The situation with Tkachuk is likely even worse, and all we'd have is a late first to show for it.
Treliving makes that trade and it would just get endlessly criticized just like Feaster's trade of Iginla get's criticized still today.