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Originally Posted by metroneck
Fair bit or revisionist history on this list
- Hull trade brought back important pieces to the cup team, and was generally lauded at the time, despite everyone knowing he would ‘fill the net with pucks’ (quote from that time).
- they could not afford the Cup team anymore, although I don’t think they got good value on many of the players.
- Gilmour trade was forced due to an off ice reason. He had to go. Mods can pm me for my source and reason.
- Brodeur hurts, especially because we swapped picks with NJ, but at the time Kidd was seen as the better prospect. Marty may have not become Marty here.
- at the time, we couldn’t even get a bag of pucks for either Savard or St Louis. Savard was a admitted mistake by Button, because he stood by his coach. A lot of GM’s would have done the same.
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It's not really revisionist history when I admitted in the post that I wasn't alive during those times, I was just questioning why they did such a bad job managing all those assets. Also your points about Savard, St.Louis, and Brodeur don't really stand as you're just admitting we had bad scouting in those days which proves my point...