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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Brad did well here and turned a bad team into a good regular season team. But he never showed that ability to buy low on a guy. He always went after a guys when he had a good playoffs run, a break out season or was already in his prime about to be past his prime.
Conroy is taking on guys that other teams have given up on with assets. That is a sign of a great GM. Takes heat early on in trades, then time goes on and when you look back it doesn't makes sense how he got that return.
I still can not figure out what the Devils didn't like about Sharangovich? Guy is a stud in all 3 situations. He's 2nd in SHP in the NHL, he's capable of 1dt PP time too. How can you not fit this guy in?
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I have no idea, I just know that Conroy needs to replicate that trade another couple of times.
Quite true about Treliving buying high on past players that didn't pan out too often. Neal was a terrible idea from day 1. He was already slipping, but was coming off a long run with a successful team in Vegas, and was mistakenly taken as key cog in what made them successful that year, when he was more of an expendable piece on a good team whose stock was on the way down.
Buying low in the ~25 age group is a brilliant strategy.