Everything about Snow's expansion-protection plan was a complete and utter miscalculation.
I didn't love trading futures to essentially protect one roster player, but I thought I understood Snow's plan.
I figured Snow would get Tavares extended, try to extend CdH to a very team-friendly deal or flip him for better assets than he gave up to protect him (like the Hamonic trade), and use the real $$$ saved by moving out Grabo's contract to add one more big piece that the Isles clearly needed.
Of course instead we saw Tavares walk away for nothing, Snow pushed ahead with CdH on an expiring contract, who immediately got injured and also walked away for nothing, while no other upgrade was imported.
It was very frustrating to watch all of these events play out, see assets leave for no returning value AND then Vegas used the Brannstrom draft pick to land Stone. Talk about adding insult to injury.