And, for all we know that 2nd round pick and prospect that it may take to get another stud D-man on this team, will never get us this close to another Cup again. That's if they ever even make the show.
Whitney doesn't make this team better defensively. Need to aim higher. Chara isn't getting any younger, we scored 5 goals tonight, and it wasn't enough. D has to tighten up.
Face it, we just acquired Jerome Iginla. We're in win now mode.
We are in make smart moves now mode. Iginla made complete and total sense because it's realistic to extend him for about $5M and get several years out of him. A defenseman would 100% be a rental, we just don't have the cap space to extend any of the good D. If Chiarelli can get real creative and land a top 4 D-Man on an insanely cheap, signed for $2M in future years or less type contract then he has my full support in dealing a guy like Spooner, another future 1st, etc. But if it's just going to be some rental who is gone at the end of the year, I think it's a mistake to give up big assets for a guy you get 1 run with.
A 2nd and a prospect would not appear to be the asking price for a player like Mark Streit, unless you are talking about a top guy like Spooner. Douglas Murray is a 3rd pairing guy not having a very good year and brought back a 2nd and another conditional 2nd. Morrow brought back a top prospect in Joe Morrow. Paul Gaustad brought back a 1st rounder last year, and the list goes on.
Does anything in Chia's track record suggest we are going to pay big for a rental? All his moves were guys he either had under contract for another year like Kelly, Peverley or planned to extend before July 1st like Seidenberg or Kaberle (who was a complete bust and couldn't be extended, but that's beside the point). And I fully support him in not doing so, like I said, it's bad business.
