It's not Monday morning qb when I said we should trade him after he refused to sign an extension last summer and wanted to play the year out. I predicted this would happen so yeee I'm freaking pissed right now. Losing JT for nothing when you have no idea if he was going to sign is not worth I don't care what you say. Obviously the islanders were playing Russian Roulette and lost big time. You don't take that kind of gamble as now you have set your franchise back big time.
I was referring to myself with the Monday Morning QB reference.
It's obviously a gamble, but if I knew there was a legitimate chance to re-sign him, I take that chance. You can disagree and play it safe, I'd swing for the fences. Sometimes you miss though. Basically every free agent to be is someone you're not sure is going to sign, so should every team always trade their UFA's to be? I don't believe in that philosophy and take it case by case. And again, he hasn't decided anything yet.
Opinions are allowed to differ. I take that gamble every time The return would never be as great as keeping jt, and the franchise isn’t set back as far as you are making it seem.
That's right. There was also a lack of information pertaining to certain things that influenced my thought process. One of which, and I was wrong, was I assumed the poison pill in Snow's contract wasn't there or not too bad. I still find it absurd that Malkin/Ledecky didn't have some sort of protection in place to prevent that from happening...and I'd be more annoyed if they signed off on that.
