I have trouble ranking those 3 moves in terms of stupidity.
With the Sauer/Finger mixup I swear Fletch thought we were getting Backes in the Steen deal.
McCabe and Kubina, just dumb. McCabe had 1 bad injury marred season, and this city turned him into an immovable cap dump that had to be moved RIGHT NOW. We added a pick to get a worse defenseman, he returns to form and puts up 3 solid seasons, being named Captain and traded for positive value. Kubina wasn't even underperforming, Burke just wanted a more physical defense so traded a good top pairing dman for a 3rd pair, to free up the cap space for a bad top pairing dman that ended up getting bought out.
Jeff Finger that man hit the lotto
I remember McCabe scoring the OT winner on us when he was with Florida, my dad lost his shit that night
Komisarek was supposed to be our next captain, that was a disaster of a signing.