centipede2233
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If yzerman thinks he was getting even a 1st for 34 yr old David perron, he is delusional.As posted a few pages ago:
“It's pretty certain that they committed to this move after their list of targets had already been exhausted.
- We knew weeks ahead of time that Kane was forcing his way to NYC.
- Horvat was traded on Jan 30
- Tarasenko was traded on Feb 9
- O'Reilly was traded on Feb 17
- Niederreiter was traded on Feb 25
- Meier was traded on Feb 26 (this is the one that we know the Canes threw serious assets at)
- This trade dropped on Feb 28, the same day that Kane, Johansson, Nyqvist were traded.
After this one, the Canes moved for Gostisbehere on March 1st, two days before the actual TDL. But during that whole post-2/28 timeframe, the highest-scoring forward that got moved was Max Domi of all people. Canes simply weren't interested in moving real assets for guys that were just going to plug into bottom-6 wing spots.”
It’s easy to throw names around and say “shoulda traded for X, he wouldn’t have cost much” but there are internal realities to these deals. Detroit pulled down multiple picks including 1sts for both Hronek and Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi has 7 goals this year… Perron has 20. Connect the dots. Detroit wasn’t trading Perron for scraps, they were looking for multiple 1sts for that kind of deal. There’s a reason he didn’t get traded. Carolina management isn’t throwing multiple 1sts at anything like a 35 year old rental.
We know they were in heavy on Meier and Miller, and when those struck out they were left sitting with unused cap space and no targets worth taking seriously. At that point they checked a box to fill an immediate depth need, with longshot upside to turn into something more useful, essentially for free. Why not? There was no downside to the move at that point.
Of course I don’t expect Oilers fans to be tracking Canes roster movement at that level of granularity. But even superficially, you can look at this and clearly see that it came after the trade market had settled and they had cap space to burn.
the reason Bertuzzi and hronek returned a 1st plus was because of their age…..