Gaudette being traded for a taxi level player is not what has most of us frustrated, although it is a clear win for Chicago and Bowman. Its that players that should/could have been traded were not.
I see Pearson as a Gaudette level player, but Pearson on likely a downswing with no upside left at this stage. Yet one was extended for 3.25M/yr, and the other traded for fodder. A GM that cannot evaluate talent properly as it relates to contracts is very dangerous. We might have been able to get out of this current cap hell he created, but he has been given free reign to double down even more.