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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Signing Neal probably wasn’t our worst move. It didn’t handcuff the franchise or anything. Sure he was a tire fire, but at the end of the day he just didn’t pan out here.
Our worst move was probably the Iginla or Bouwmeester trades. Blowing the picks is understandable but none of the prospects we got were even close to being good enough, and probably hurt the rebuild.
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True. We had no ammunition to start a proper rebuild with. No multiple blue chip futures to kick it off right.
We lucked out with Gaudreau, who was a late rounder and never an intentional pickup for rebuild purposes.
Monahan and Bennett were basically it. They added a bunch of B pieces like Poirier and Shinkaruk and figured they had a 1C in the holster in Jankowski but all those guys were lucky to be middle of the road or complimentary players at best.
Trading Jbo and Iggy needed to net us something upper echelon. Netting late firsts in an unspectacular draft just didn't cut it.
What Ottawa is doing will set them up right with time. Its what I wish we had done.
Instead figuring we were ahead of schedule with the right core pieces we dealt multiple futures for vets, one who will leave this summer for nothing.
Just felt like treliving was meandering somewhere between rebuilding and making 'a piece or two away' moves, while never really committing one way or the other and as a result we've stayed perfectly mediocre, floating between good and not.
Thank God for vancouver that we were able to pick up Tkachuk, who is the kind of player that can be built around.
We have to do it right this time though. Hanging on to Johnny until he expires out of faint hope to compete in the next two years would be absolutely killer.
Hope treliving has the balls to do what must be done to REALLY have a shot in 3-5 years, not just a fool's hope.