But according to Oiler fans, we should be trading Nurse right?
This was probably among his 3 best games since Klef went down. If he keeps putting up points I might also have to re-evaluate how I look at him, I've always considered him a defensive d-man first and foremost with a little bit of latent offense, but maybe he is that extremely rare late blooming offensive d-man and you can overlook his defense being a bit wonky at times cause he outscores his mistakes.
Also the whole mindset of assuming people only want to trade players cause they think they are bad I find odd, maybe it's years of a horribly run organization rotting people's brains, but it's ideal to trade players when their value is at it's zenith and buy players who've dipped, but are likely to bounce back. It tends to be the case that you got to trade good stuff to get good stuff and if you trade scraps like Spooner you tend to get scraps back.
Like I recall holding the very unpopular opinion of trading Jordan Eberle straight up for Alex Pietrangelo at a time when Ebs was a superhero for his WJC heroics and many Blues fans were pretty ok with it as they were underwhelmed with Pietro's early play post draft, but I watched a good handful of his OHL games and thought he very much looked the part of a future stud D-man. It was also a good time to trade him after one of his early unsustainably high shooting percentage seasons, yet we held onto him to the point we ended up trading him at a low point for a highly underwhelming return. Ofcourse it was heresy to advocate trading him at those respective high points, but with the benefit of hindsight it was almost certainly the right decision.
