I went with Johnsson which makes that trade even more stupid. Down year during Covid, had Covid which was bad for him, and he's gone. Just a dumb move in hindsight.
Ok, we only lost Joey Anderson in trade and we did need goal scoring. Anderson would have been exposed in the draft instead, he’s not exempt anymore.
Many posters described Fitz as being “defensive of Johnsson” last season when he didn’t publicly criticize AJ in a zoom interview when asked about his production.
This led to the theory that he would protect Johnsson in the ED, not because he was worth protecting but because Fitz didn’t want to look “foolish” after making that trade and then expose the player he traded for in the ED in very next off-season. Some posters even got preemptively angry over this.
Fitz doesn’t do this and he protects McLeod over Johnsson like the vast majority of the board wants and he’s still stupid and dumb? Again, Joey Anderson would have to be protected or exposed too if we kept him.
I’m sorry, I would/will only accept bellyaching from 1) from the majority of the board if Johnsson had been protected 2) from the minority who said they wanted Johnsson protected, I assume over McLeod 3) those few who said they wanted Bastian protected over Kuokkanen. I don’t agree with 2) or 3) but at least they have something specific to complain about.
Random complaints about the Johnsson trade are just bitching for fun, and I likely took the loss of Joey harder than most on the board. (Not harder than
@StevenToddIves but pretty hard, and I still believe Joey could be an NHLer, Dubas just needs to stop keep signing aged RWs.)
The Rangers just traded for Barclay Goodrow’s rights and then exposed him. The Ducks traded for Volkov and Fleury, young signed players, and then exposed both. Only so many players can get
protected, that’s how this works.