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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He's doing fine in Fla (though as people have noted, not a star in the regular season). But part of that might just be him getting traded and being happier, plus thinking he had to get his act together and perform in his second chance.
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This why grading trades is often a fool’s game. Just because a player did much better on Team B than they did on Team A doesn’t mean he would have seen that same improvement if he’d stayed on Team A.
Eric Duhatschek, who’s been covering NHL trades for more than 40 years, has written many columns about why ‘change of scenery’ trades work. In a lot of cases, moving to a new team is necessary to bring out the better player. They were never going to make that jump in their original team.