Also, no, the Habs got excellent value for Lehkonen.
Players like Lehkonen are great, until you have to really pay them. Then they're not so great.
I was as big of a fan as you could find of Josh Gorges (a little biased because I got to know his family in Kelowna while working there), but once he got his big contract, he wasn't as before.
Barron might make it, he might not, only time will tell. Wouldn't shock me if he never made it, but there's real potential there.
Lehkonen's the type of player that teams should be giving each other high fives and celebrating. We drafted him, got him during his best years for almost no money, he gave us great service, and we traded him away right around the end of his probable prime so that some other team can overpay him.
Excellent post
Like Rolex says , these are the guys you should have in your system then dump when its time to overpay