Paxon
202* Stanley Cup Champions
You're right about salary retention. At best it's irrelevant, but if we weren't retaining salary in that deal it'd have made it even better, so it's a poor point for Zip. I have no doubt salary retention would've been part of that deal though. There's no question Boston's 2nd + Spooner is a better deal than what we got, but that doesn't mean I think he screwed up. If it were Subban + a 2nd I'd say he screwed up. He took a calculated risk that he could get a better offer and it didn't work out. If he came close to a better deal, that opportunity was worth losing out on Spooner, a player I couldn't care less about having. If you feel differently about Spooner that should give you a different perspective, of course. You can't judge decision-making solely on outcomes, otherwise every time a player takes a shot and doesn't score we'd say he should have passed, etc. I disagree about the value of a pick in 2017. It's exactly the kind of thing I wanted to see us do. Spreading out picks is a good thing. We need a steady stream of potential young players coming in every year. That need becomes greater in the future, not lesser.
As to the draft, I'm not enamored with it either, but there's a reason Murray was willing to trade all three 2nd's and no one accepted. It was a poor class starting in the 2nd round. Let's give it some time. Let's also give Murray some time now that he's had a chance to bring his own personnel into the scouting department. Still mad about Barbashev and not thrilled with anything else about the draft besides Reinhart.
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