I tend to agree, but Fenton clearly does not value Fletcher era players and I can see him doing this to show Leopold that he is serious about winning while protecting Fenton's new players and picks.
He's already got the job and has only been at it for a year. Spending the last few months saying that he wants to get younger and faster, making trades that support that, then turning around to trade everyone for Kessel and Malkin to prove something to Leipold (who has a history of giving his GM's a lot of time to operate) doesn't really jive.
Correct, if we were applying normal logic.
Strictly speaking Rask's younger than Nino, and Pateryn's 5 years younger than Prosser. So even there we got younger. The main piece coming back for Zucker is presumed to have been the pick and Fiala's obviously younger than Granlund, pick or not.
On the one hand it's hard to read much into a GM's comments about a trade immediately after it's made. They virtually always say it was a fair deal, good value, etc. On the other hand he does lean into the "hockey trade" idea, which would imply that additional picks/prospects were a tertiary concern. I'm not sure that any of it implies that he and Poile didn't discuss other pieces, though the 'that's what I told him all along" does veer in that direction.The Athletic said:
Of course he said it after the fact. Common sense tells us that he obviously asked for more than he got. That's just basic negotiating. Common sense also tells us that once the deal is done, he's going to say that that's exactly the deal he wanted.
Yeah, that's something that Russo would know
5 trades if you count Johansen/Jones and Weber/Subban, which Fenton went out of his way to pull in.
Not sure how you can possibly think that? Are you really saying that you're confident that Russo knows about each and every conversation the Fenton has or hasn't had? Get real.
