Just imagine if we had ROR as the top line center instead of Danault now and dropped him to 2nd line C once Koko could handle it.
Even now we’d likely be a far better and deeper team if we made that trade and it’s not like ROR is ancient. Hes under contract and has term for the time we’d need him and we still have Suzuki and other Cs developing in the minors.
Tatar ROR Gally
Drouin Domi Hudon
Lehkonen Koko Armia
Byron Danault Shaw
That’s pretty damn deep lineup, particularly at C. Even with injuries, Danault slides up to the 3 spot.
I get not making the trade but I think we’d have been ok either way