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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Ever wonder why the Sabres never did anything with their rebuild. Culprit #1!
what an idiotic trade.
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The trade itself was fine.
It was re-signing him to a $9M contract after a 40 goal and 63 point season, and then taking him off of Eichel's line.
Skinner is a one-dimensional forward that is going to struggle if you ask him to do more than that, or play him with other forwards that aren't good.
He worked with Staal and Eichel at times because they could do the heavy lifting and it allowed him to do what he does. He's also generally good on the PP...which was why he never made sense for EDM since he wasn't cracking their 1st PP unit.
Overall though now he's just old and lost a step and that makes him even more ineffective in the areas he already struggled with, and not as effective as a scorer.