Choosing the wrong option

[LeafFever]

DiPietro and Luongo

Milbury saw a new diamond in the dust, so he offered a real diamond in the hand. Florida won.

What a waste that was. you have your future #1 goalie, so you trade him before you see what he can do only to draft a goalie #1 overall.

 

[Tripod]

The biggest, and probably only, dissapointment in Hextalls era as GM in Philadelphia was one of his first moves; trading Scott Hartnell to Columbus for R.J. Umberger and a 4th round pick.

The only saving grace will be if that 4th round pick, Mikhail Vorobyov, continues his development trajectory to being a potential middle 6 Center down the line. He is currently playing 1C on Russian's U20 WJC team and has 5 assists already heading into todays game wit USA. If he busts, the trade will be looked back on truly awful.

Agreed....by far Hextall's worst mistake was his first move.

But Philly also got Salinitri in the deal as they dropped down a few spots in 2015 for a 6th in 2016. And he is PPG in the OHL.

So right now, it's Hartnell for Umberger, Vorobyov and Salinitri. Still bad, but at least there is hope to get something out of it.

 

[Krams]

I have never chosen the wrong option

 

[alko]

Overall im surprised, that 90% of this thread is about players and moves in last 10 years.

Where are the older members of HFboards?

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

The entire Luongo/Canucks saga.

That was absolutely abysmal. I couldn't believe it unfolded the way it did.

 

[xbr]

With the Leafs management of past years this could end up being a pretty long list but these stand out for me...

- Pogge over Rask as many have said
- Trading Steen/Colaiacivo for Stempniak
- Kessel for what became Seguin/Hamilton
- Letting Stralman walk

They didn't let Stralman walk. Burke traded him for Calgary's 2011 2nd round pick, which he traded with Toronto's 2011 3rd round pick to Chicago to get back Toronto's 2010 2nd round pick (which had been traded to Mtl for Grabs and ended up in Chicago) so he could then trade that pick to Boston in the Kessel deal.

Burkes draft pick management is something else.

What is hilarious is that 2011 2nd became Saad, that 2011 draft is way more depressing then the 2010 draft in retrospect to me. In 2010 we gave away the pick that would become Seguin, in 2011 we gave up the picks that would become Hamilton, Rakell, Gibson and Saad. To make myself feel better I just imagine Burke would have wasted them on grinders anyway.

 

[Brock Radunske]

Opting to keep Pogge over Rask is the biggest Leafs example that I can think of.

 

[613Leafer]

Opting to keep Pogge over Rask is the biggest Leafs example that I can think of.

Yep, came to say that.

Lupul/Clarkson over MacArthur is another one. Lupul/Clarkson both got longer deals and bigger caphits, and have been worse players.

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

And the Avs likely wouldn't have been as bad last year, thus Jost likely wouldn't be there either.

They picked 10 OA to get Rantanen, and probably wouldn't have been able to do much to address the issues on D. Not sure they'd have picked much later than 10, even with ROR.