Did Pierre manage to mention
- which team was involved?
Or
- what the "substantial offer" was?
Knowing how McGuire carefully words everything, I'm going to guess no.
Which means a whole lot of nothing to me.
As I said earlier, I'll know whether or it he mishandled the situation when hes eventually moved and I see the return.
Until then, I personally don't have enough information at this point to determine that, either way.
This would be my guess too -- a whole lot of ambiguity hyped up into a storyline. Tantalizing words, but no content.
My biggest concern is in what direction Bergevin is looking. If his priority is trading Max for roster players we're screwed. First of all, we'll get far less bang for the buck than the long-term gain of trading for a top draft pick. Yes, I'm sure we'll get a good roster player in return, but he won't enough of an upgrade over Pacioretty, if he is at all, to move us forward and remain under contract for the next few years.
The second and more important reason we'd be screwed with a roster-for-roster trade is it punctures the dream of a proper rebuild/rethink. It would reveal the absence of any longterm plan and show our crack management team has defaulted to the monkey-ish repetition of the same win-now moves that crash-landed us here.
Basically, it would prove they've learned absofrikkinlutely nothing.
No team is trading away their top centers or their top rookies for one year of Pacioretty, so there are very few scenarios where trading for a roster player makes sense. The only logical direction is to capitalize on a playoff wannabe team and grab their 1st, in the hope they have a lousy season.
