I don't consider us hiring Babcock is the biggest story. there was always a chance that it would be - and it was.
Kessel wasn't either.
I would say -
Trading David Clarkson had to be one of the biggest stories, because I honestly and firmly believed we were stuck with that contract for the next umpteen years. I just assumed if we traded Clarkson, we would have gotten a useless player back who sucked and it would have just been frustrating.
Him literally being off the cap (because Horton) was a Lou-ivian move before we even got Lou.
which leads me to
Lou Lamoriello being our GM. that came out of no where. I think we all were penciling Dubas slash Hunter in, kind of reaching for the Pen to write in Mike Futa's name in.... Lou reallllllly shocked all of us and that is a bigger story than us being obvious and offering Babcock the moon