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Yeah, the rest of it sucked, but it looks better together today than it did one year after the trade. I shouldn't have to spell this out for anyone. Again, I picked a poor example I guess since it's a sensitive topic around here. The results of a trade change over time and it's not a competition between the two teams involved. I'd actually say its the exact opposite. Both want to gain from it and that can and has happened plenty of times. The gold standard would probably be Iginla for Nieuwendyk. I doubt that Calgary fans give two shits that Dallas won a cup after that deal.

Again, all of this is not the point. I knew I shouldn't have mentioned that trade for these exact reasons. But all I'm trying to say is that the return of a trade will look different as time passes. One year after that trade it looked very bad. Today? We have the most prolific goal scorer this franchise has seen in 30 years. Judging McLeod/Savoie today? It's mostly pointless (but at least it's better than a day 0 judgement).

Selective reading sure is fun, isn’t it?

Just like Edmonton didn’t trade for Savoie for just 2024-25, Buffalo didn’t do that for McLeod either. I sure do love one year trade assessments. I’m not making any statement about winners and losers when I say that the O’Reilly trade sure as hell looks a lot different today than it did in 2019.

To be fair, this is the first time they’ve been able to buy one.

Have they actually drafted any Penn State player other than Brett Murray?

I’d love Rakell just so I can continue to joke about him making a long journey from Milan to Minsk.

So one season just like his last go around?

I just assume that aldi keeps all their meat at room temperature.

I just can’t see them hitting rock bottom if Crosby is still on the roster. Completely unrelated to that, I wish he’d be willing to move somewhere else for another chance to win.

I think it's a fair placement. Outside of Werenski who was an absolute stud this year, you're not seeing many non-playoff teams on that list. So that type of recognition given how bad the team was, it means something.

I can't get past the playoff performance from that Benn-Duchene line. Where that team is right now, they should be targeting playoff performance and it was lacking with those guys. In that front offices shoes, I'd say it is time to move on.

Two days between games sucks, especially when they're played in the same building.

There's a whole lot of years in that list of UFAs. I know they'll want to keep some experience around, but it shouldn't be too hard to move on from maybe even 3 of them. Granlund might still get some decent money, but the rest are at that stage where if they want to win, they should be signing team friendly deals. I completely understand if they want to chase the dollars instead though.

I hope Tooth applies.