EvenSteven
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If you remember we had 2 tenders who were Jr B caliber at that time (Greenfield and Dekort) plus the Rangers hadn't won in about 8 or 9 games when the trade was made. If they didn't shore up the net they might not have made the play offs.
Yes, making the playoffs, where did that get us that year? Had we not traded for Paterson we either don't make the playoffs or we barely squeak in and are an easy out the first round. We spent the picks we spent on Patterson to try to get us an extra playoff home date or two instead of a 4 game sweep or no post season at all. That's all that deal accomplished. That team wasn't getting any further than the first round anyway, Paterson or no Paterson.
The worst thing about that deal, was that it insured a lower first round pick in the 2015 draft. Instead of picking 12th overall, and drafting Meireles who has at least so far, underachieved as a first round pick, we could've finished out of the playoffs and drafted one of Vilardi, McLeod, or Tippett. No way we would've been as bad as Sudbury and drafted first overall. They would've gone ahead and drafted Levin and we would've had one of those three guys. How would that be going forward? How would that help today's team?