Ok...but why? Can you expand? We literally had our three most successful seasons in franchise history because of this trade and Subban was even nominated for Norris, although I think it was more based on name recognition because I thought Josi was better but I digress.
Subban's play was so bad that a rookie Fabbro had an identical stat line to Subban until February when he started slowing down, which is common for a rookie. Should we have kept him?
The deal isn't as cut and dry that you can say "Well...Weber's still playing at an elite level and Subban sucks so you lost" Yeah, Subban sucks but we moved him after we got all our use out of him and we used him to restock our prospect pool.
Yes, but they all made sense at the time.
Uh yeah, that's why we moved Subban without retaining anything when he regressed so bad.
If you don't think we got any "good futures" then I suggest you familiarize yourself with Afanasyev. Also the high NJ pick this year gives us a lot of leverage to move up into the first again.
And what happens if Duchene returns to 60-70 point form when we get rid of the waste of skates that are Granlund and Turris? Does that change your mind?
You do realize that Santini was a throw in right? Like we had to take him back so that NJ would take the full Subban contract right?
Johansen, RNH and Draisaitl were the only options we had when we were moving Jones. And while it's obvious in hindsight that we should have taken Draisaitl he was coming off a pitiful 9 point rookie season and everybody was talking about how Edmonton ruined yet another high pick. We gambled and made it to within 2 wins of the cup.
We always knew we were going to lose the Jones trade but it was necessary as we don't get the same return if we traded Ellis and we wouldn't have the defensive depth if we moved Weber. We had to get a number one center.
Uh yeah, that's why we moved him without retention for futures. The trade has moved on beyond what Subban does on his future team and what Weber continues to do for Montreal.
Again, we don't make the finals, win the Presidents trophy or win our division without Johansen and Subban.
Yes, we could have Weber, Josi and Jones right now! Great, who's playing center again?