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Old 05-20-2025, 04:01 PM   #456
Paulie Walnuts
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Originally Posted by indes View Post
Treliving lost me at the Huberdeau + Weegar extensions. Losing Gaudreau + Tkachuk put the writing on the wall, we weren't good enough with them - we sure as hell weren't going to be good enough without them.

We should have flipped Huberdeau & Weegar for more assets and started the rebuild that summer. I'm a huge Weegar fan but at the time it didn't make sense to try and run it back without 2/3 of our top line. We could have loaded up on capital that summer and probably ended up with the equivalent of 4 firsts for Tkachuk. Keeping the 1st from the Monahan trade and we end up with 5 firsts in the next 2 years and still have a ton of assets to trade off.
If they wanted a futures deal they could have just done the deal with Carolina as Bean said. Edwards wanted to keep competing. The guy paying his salary has the final call.
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