LeetchFan

See my post above. It's not that I "hate" them -- it's just that what we get back can't really improve us that much. If we were a horrible, 60 point team (full season) then yeah, the players and picks we get back bring us back to marginal playoff contention. But do they make us a perennial playoff team...a Cup contender ? No way, IMO.

My problem with this isn't that we aren't getting "fair" value -- it's that the NHL is not the NFL. If we were stockpiling 1st-Round picks or 2nd Round or even 3rd Round picks, those have 90%/80%/70% success rates of being impact players within a year or two or three. Not so in the NHL. Unless we get super-lucky and hit on a late-1st, we're probably drafting 4th line and 3rd line players at best. Unless we can package like 2 or 3 or 4 firsts and some seconds to someone in the Top 5 or Top 3 -- and I doubt the other team wants that.

Zuccarello gone...Hayes gone....Kreider not untouchable...the guys we traded last year.....:banghead: I didn't know we had the 1980's Edmonton Oilers and 1990's Pittsburgh Penguins coming to us via the draft. And with late-1st Round or 2nd or later picks, too.

You could be right, but reading all the chitter-chatter the last few months it appears there were NO serious discussions between his agent and Gorton.