Henkka
Registered User
Found this interesting story from Reddit.
Scenario of Red Wings trying to stay competitive.
I once made the opposite scenario, like full rebuild after 2012. Selling Datsyuk to Rangers at 2014 deadline (instead of Martin St. Louis). But interesting to see this "lazy view" of the other end.
Scenario of Red Wings trying to stay competitive.
Lazy Experiment: If we had never made a trade since 2012
A lot of people think of 2012, the year Lidstrom retired, as the year we might need to invest in a rebuild. Instead, obviously, we stayed competitive for 4 more years. Why would we make no trades? Who knows! I'm bored.
So in the shallowest of dives, I present the differences in our teams, from an NHL perspective...
Conclusion:
With no trades, we are a fringe playoff team with no future. We keep some good players, but they are all mostly past their prime or are depth pieces. Speaking strictly in a binary sense, our trades turned out pretty good. Our current core of Mantha, Bertuzzi, and Hronek are the result of these trades. Most of the trades we made turned out to be nothing, but we have a lot more chances at something good moving forward.
All in all, good job Holland. maybe it could've been better, but the do-nothing idea is, obviously, not a great one.
I once made the opposite scenario, like full rebuild after 2012. Selling Datsyuk to Rangers at 2014 deadline (instead of Martin St. Louis). But interesting to see this "lazy view" of the other end.