Any which way you look at it, the Panthers appear to be worse on the whole.
You subtracted a line driver that fueled your secondary scoring (and now those complementary players will be worse without him), and the only guy on your defense that was capable of doing a solid job of filling in for Ekblad when he went down. Then the futures.
And you brought in a pest who is good at supporting top players but is slow and fades in important games.
There are some prices a unicorn just isn't worth paying for.
Zito was drunk on some potent love potion, fortunately for us.
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