If they can turn it around quickly then it does make sense, I don't think they can depending on the blueline and how quickly they can rebuild it and what the young guys do in Brook, Mete, Juulsen and if we hit on at least one of Fleury, Harris, Romanov.
My problem is the lack of high end talent. I think that we are in a great spot from the '18, '19 and '20 drafts to get that high end talent. Then hopefully be a cup contender by around the '24-'25 season depending on so many factors like MB getting fired, a new president, finding a great GM, one of the new hired coaches takes over for CJ and excels, improved development, better asset management, nail at least one or two big trades instead of losing high end talent like Subban, Sergachev, etc..
There's so many ifs and who knows what will happen, we just missed getting the great D prospect by 2 spots, and with the new lotto rules it's even harder to pull it off but this summers draft could be a big one and could change the future of the organization by a lot.
On the other hand, I agree I don't think Poehling will be better then ROR, as I would be shocked if he can put up that kind of production although it's still way too early to say as you have a 1st round pick that his draft year he was in a league he shouldn't have been and struggled badly and the next year when he was more age appropriate he was one of the best 18 year olds in the league. So now we need to see how much he continues to progress or not.
With Price, Weber (if his injuries don't slow him down more), if Drouin were to get more help on top of a ROR, perhaps he turns into a 60-70 pt player but who knows there. Then you would need Mete, Reilly, Juulsen to all be at their best, Price to be back to form for the next several years. It could have worked if many things went right for us. I don't trust MB at all to be able to fix this but it is possible that the trade could have put us on the path as long as other things went right but we would still need more high end talent and without the high draft pick that's going to be very hard to do as we've seen for the last 25 years since we so rarely have a top 5/10/15 pick over that span.