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Originally Posted by GioforPM
But didn’t they trade him because he was going to be unaffordable (though making $6M at the time for 2 years)? Whereas Saad made the $6M for a much longer term.
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However they justified it, it was the wrong decision. They traded an elite player for a non-elite one, and any chance of further deep playoff runs was over.
It’s tough to ask for more than three titles and four conference championship appearances from any one core anyway, but that trade was the bullet to the brain of the Kane/Toews Blackhawks as a dominant force.