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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Oh this is just so much bull#### unless you're 10 years old or younger. Remember the year after Iginla was traded away? Wanna check out that roster again?
Cammalleri-Monahan (rookie season)-Hudler
Stempniak-Backlund-Glencross
Colborne-Stajan-D. Jones
Galiardi-Bouma-McGrattan
Byron/Westgarth
Giordano-Brodie (the team's only saving grace was a legitimate top pair)
Russell-Wideman
Butler-Smid
O'Brien
Ramo/Berra
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That's a bad team...but it is a bit funny that to field that lineup they traded three 4ths and a 5th for Colborne+Galiardi+Knight+Russell (one of the 4ths turned into Ville Husso)
Stempniak = 3rd...used a few moths later to acquire Bollig
Berra = 2nd
Then the next year:
Glencross = 2nd+3rd
Bartschi = 2nd
...before officially ending the scorched earth that off-season with the Hamilton trade.
They did eventually cash in on Hudler and Russell, but we also know how they spent this very small fortune of 2nds/3rds: Elliott, Smith, Lazar, Stone...Hamonic
UFA signings are one thing, but pissing away picks to fill the roster gaps is even worse. As is failing to recover anything at all for:
Cammi
Stajan
Colborne
Wideman
Byron
etc
And yes were are talking about 4ths or worse for most of these guys, but even those picks would mitigate the future instances of pick pissing for Fantanberg+Gustafsson et al.
Basically the scorched earth amounted to picking 4th/6th/6th and trading up from 100 to 50 several times.