Confirmed with Link: Nilsson to Buffalo for a 2017 5th round pick

[Celtic Note]

shattenkirk-ej trade
halak
dagastini
jbo
dumping brad boyes and his contract
getting rid of human cone brewer

im sure there are many others, those are the ones off the top of my head. the armstrong haters wont mention any of those though, doesnt fit their narrative.

Halak was not a good trade.

Dags, Boyes and Brewer were solid, but "great"? Yeah, not so much.

 

[Louie the Blue]

Halak was not a good trade.

Dags, Boyes and Brewer were solid, but "great"? Yeah, not so much.

Trading for Halak from Montreal was a good trade. When the best player the Blues gave up in the deal turned out to be a #3 Center, I don't see how it can't be viewed as anything other than a W.

 

[Bluesnatic27]

Halak was not a good trade.

Dags, Boyes and Brewer were solid, but "great"? Yeah, not so much.

We gave up Lars Eller and a 4th line prospect, how was that not a good trade for a starting goaltender who had led his team to the eastern conference finals?

 

[BlueDream]

Lol. "Armstrong has made lots of great trades!"

*Names one that happened within the last 5 years*

 

[Evocable Manager]

shattenkirk-ej trade
halak
dagastini
jbo
dumping brad boyes and his contract
getting rid of human cone brewer

im sure there are many others, those are the ones off the top of my head. the armstrong haters wont mention any of those though, doesnt fit their narrative.

Is it weird that the last one on your list was Bouwmeester in 2013? Seems like its been a while...

 

[SteenMachine]

The EJ trade was a joke compared to what we could have done with a #1 center instead of Stewart and Shattenkirk, no matter how great Shattenkirk turned out to be at his role. We had one chance to redeem ourselves for not taking Toews or Backstrom.

 

[MissouriMook]

The EJ trade was a joke compared to what we could have done with a #1 center instead of Stewart and Shattenkirk, no matter how great Shattenkirk turned out to be at his role. We had one chance to redeem ourselves for not taking Toews or Backstrom.

Come on. If EJ had that kind of value we wouldn't have been trading him in the first place.

 

[SteenMachine]

Come on. If EJ had that kind of value we wouldn't have been trading him in the first place.

I'm not saying we get a franchise center, but a #1 for the last 5 years would have been nice.

 

[BlueDream]

Come on. If EJ had that kind of value we wouldn't have been trading him in the first place.

Why not? We had Pietrangelo.

Obviously there's no guarantee we could have gotten it, and I even liked the trade at the time, but I have questioned whether targeting another defenseman and a winger was the best use of his trade value. It's definitely a point to consider.

All of Armstrong's good trades aside from Bouwmeester came from 5 years ago. I don't get why anyone is content with that (not saying you are).

 

[simon IC]

I would rather have EJ right now than Shattenkirk, Just sayin' ...

 

[Ranksu]

The future saved

 

[Alklha]

I would rather have EJ right now than Shattenkirk, Just sayin' ...

I think a lot of Blues fans let their immediate judgements cloud their views on that trade.

Stewart was a bust, and we gave up the higher pick. We think that Shattenkirk fits our team better, but we haven't really done anything in the playoffs with him until this year. I don't want to give Parayko too much credit for this year, he definitely slowed down in the playoffs, but it was a factor.

Shattenkirk is better in his role than EJ. But I do wonder if the team would have done better with 2 more traditional #1 type defensemen over the past 5 years.

Ignoring the current Shattenkirk contract situation, I certainly don't count that trade as a win. Certainly wasn't a terrible trade, but it is at best lateral.

Another factor when it came to trading EJ was our projection of Berglund. The organisation still believed he was going to be at least a very good #2C at that point. Had we not thought that, we might have been looking for a different return.

 

[MissouriMook]

I would rather have EJ right now than Shattenkirk, Just sayin' ...

In the sense that he wouldn't have held up a trade to EDM and Taylor Hall would be a Blue right now, sure. In every other conceivable way, just No.

 

[LGB51]

I know, the return is fine and it doesn't matter. But given how little he played, it was pointless in the first place.

Hopefully Husso can get to the AHL quickly with his play.

Oplika is our future starter.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

More like, "Crash and burn, Mav."

 

[LetsGoBooze]

The Gunner trade was a win and is more recent:

Polak for Gunner and Husso, that's an easy win.

 

[Oberyn]

Imagine if we had traded EJ for Duchene. At the time, the Avs had ROR and Stastny.