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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
The only player he made a serious run at seems to be Hanifin.
He said he knew in September they would be trading Lindholm, and by the sounds of it didn't make much of an attempt to sign him after that.
They made zero attempt to sign Toffoli and Zadorov with both getting upset and asking for trades right away.
He tried to keep Tanev, but it seems like it was a 2-year deal.
Every trade he made was a futures based deal, zero hockey trades. Traded the starting goalie for a draft pick and 3rd pairing dman. Traded Mangiapane for a 2nd round pick.
Doesn't seem like someone in a win now mode to me. Was flush with cap space, could have gone nuts in free agency like previous GM's have.
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Do we really miss any of them though?
- Lindholm and Big Z did not want to be here. Lindholm was doing nothing and Zadorov isn’t even in Vancouver anymore. He was a rollercoaster.
- Markstrom’s stats were no better than Vladar’s. Or Wolf’s.
- Debateable that Sharangovich is better than Toffoli
- Tanev was getting long in the tooth and injury prone.
- I think Hanifin was a loss. But he wasn’t interested so what do you do?
So I don’t think the team’s performance dropped much if at all. The culture of the team improved and we opened up $18 million cap space with a bunch of new prospects. Win win in my mind.