MrBrightside
Registered User
Some still do not get that the Pens never traded a first round pick, except in the most technical way. They moved down around 20 spots. Other focus on the Russian kid that St. Louis took that the Pens obviously had no interest in taking. They almost certainly would have taken the same player that they took 20 picks later with the pick.
The cost never was the issue for the vast majority who had/have an issue.
Well, it can be both. I wouldn't want Reaves for free, but much of the discussion when the trade went down centered around whether he was worth dropping down 20 spots or whether Sundqvist had flopped and there wasn't as much about the fact he's just not very good at hockey and that the Blues largely got run over when he was on the ice.