Soundgarden
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Poor Nashville. How many of their big trades have worked out for them?
Jones for Johansen - I think everyone knew that Jones would be the better player, but more was expected out of Johansen at this point.
Girard and co. for Turris - another top 4 young Dman moved for a C that has not played the way they hoped
Weber for Subban - was supposed to be a clear win given the age gap and term left but they opted to move off Subban and now bear the risk of recapture down the line
Fiala for Granlund - Granny just has not meshed in Nashville. Good player and had a very good track record with Minny. Just never found his game in Nashville. Fiala, Nashville had hopes for, but they must have felt that Granny would put them over the top now.
Eh, everyone knew we would lose any Jones trade, but we don't make the finals or win the Presidents trophy without Johansen. This one worked out even if we lost the trade handily.
Girard isn't anywhere close to as good as Josi or Ekholm are and we desperately needed center depth so he was a luxury we could afford to trade. Turris started off well here but since then he's been constantly injured or in the doghouse before Laviolette left.
We won both Subban trades handily, again we don't make the finals with Weber instead of Subban, and then when we saw that Subban was declining rapidly we moved him for some good assets without retaining anything.
Granlund is what we were hoping Fiala would turn out to be if we were lucky, in 20+ years Nashville only had 6 players with 67+ points and Granlund had just posted 67 and 69 seasons at the time of the trade, how does he go from that to the most invisible player I've ever seen play?
It's funny though, Poile is always acquiring players with reported "attitude issues", (Johansen, Duchene, Turris, etc) and the one time we trade one away he immediately breaks out.
All of these trades made sense at the time and gelled with our window,