RemoAZ
Let it burn
How many times do you draft #3 overall? Hopefully not very often. You have to do everything possible to make that kid succeed especially when you're an organization that can't sign high end talent as FAs. When you're trading him at 21 years old and less than 50 games played, you f***ed up unless he is part of a package that lands you Matthews. I didn't see any special effort to get Strome going or develop him. This team can't score for shit. There was absolutely no reason not to put him on a line with Keller. Keller wasn't tearing it up with anyone else and it's not like we have a Crosby or Toews keeping him from getting a shot on the top line. Not only did they not put him with Keller, he was consistently put with the two least talented forwards on the roster. Did they bring in a special assistant to work with him? How many times did we read about Tocc spending more time with him or taking responsibility for his development? Do you really think Kane would put up with him if he was only good enough to be a 4th line center on one of the worst teams in the league? Everything about the situation before and after the trade point to his development being very low on their priority list when it should have been at worst, #2 behind Keller. Complete and utter failure by an organization that consistently fails at pretty much everything. But it's the location of the arena that kills attendance. Yeah, right.