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Originally Posted by FanIn80
The knock against Bouwmeester when he was here was that he was a good defenceman who was being paid to be a great defenceman.
We traded for (and paid him to be) a Rob Blake, but what we got was... well... a Noah Hanifin.
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The knock against Bouwmeester is similar to what I feel Treliving did wrong, a lot. At the time we had Dion, Regher, Leopold, Sarich, Gio, Aucoin, Pardy-time? Pretty high paid d corps.. and yet farmer boy decided we needed more D as opposed to skilled forwards. Such a joke, and I believe it upset the chemistry in the room in terms of ice time. Not to mention Bouwmeester at the time was such a strange cat he couldn't even formulate proper sentences in interviews
He was skilled don't get me wrong, and ended up being fine. But the results of that initial trade were horrible