Plus top unit PP time with McDrai, that he would not get hereEhhh....
last few years:
with connor/without
GF60: 3.97/2.75
xGF%: 60.3/50.4
On Ice SH%: 10.25%/.89%
It's not all McDavid, but it's mostly McDavid
Yeah. You're going to makes trades and lose good players from time to time, the key is to get value in return. The trade with LA was fine, we paid full value for Muzzin (it felt like more of a steal at the time definitely) but Muzzin was good for us until he broke down and died. We got value in return. Verhaege, funny enough, hurts me a bit because he's the type of prospect that you just let marinate in your system and be patient with but a new regime came in and did dumb new regime shit.
Kadri though....fuck. I also reacted emotionally at the time Kadri got punted out of the playoffs again, and also kind of agreed with the idea of trading him. Even thought that Barrie+Kerfoot was a good deal for him considering how bad our right side of the blueline was at moving the puck, but man I was wrong. That turned out so fucking brutal.
The Kadri deal was a roller coaster of emotions for me. At first I was stoked and thought it was brilliant. Then I dug deeper into Barrie's nerdies and I was like fuck... Then I started bashing analytics and nerds because I was in deep denial and wanted to convince myself that there were some super secret nerd stats that made Barrie super elite. And then I claimed Kerf is just a younger Kadri so it's ok.
Still though—it’s incumbent upon the GM to not be an emotional dummy like the fans.
I do still think we had to trade Kadri. He was incredibly stupid and selfish and cost us twice in the playoffs, and then did it again after he left.
I don't think it was reasonably foreseeable that he'd take it up to 1C level play with Colorado.
The only problem was that Dubie got a shit return. And even then, maybe only in retrospect because Kerf seemed like he was a perfect replacement on paper and Barrie looked like a perfect add on D on paper. Unfortunately, the paper everyone was reading from (except Sakic) was shit.
Or would he....Plus top unit PP time with McDrai, that he would not get here
Or would he....
if Babs was still around, maybe. but we've had our stacked top PP unit for a while now.Or would he....
Always room for improvement. And of course you gotta trade JT anywayif Babs was still around, maybe. but we've had our stacked top PP unit for a while now.
I think they thought it was a pretty good return. So did we.In calm retrospect, I don't think that we had to trade Kadri. But I do think we needed to take a look at his market and see what was out there.
The original trade was apparently Brodie + Jankowski until Naz vetoed it. Brodie being a legit match up pairing guy would have made that palatable I think. The mistake was made when that fell apart and we just didn't shrug and run it back imo. Made sense to see if you could turn Naz into something really good, but as soon as that wasn't out there, just bring him back.
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Still not sure how the caps are winning. Though they're bottom 5 in the nerdies so i guess regression is coming.