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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1778568" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>It's crystal clear that the intent has been to goad Kane and Toews into requesting trades themselves. Not offering Dylan Strome is also of a piece with that.</p><p></p><p>But the sports world and the sports media has become exponentially too deferential to tanking as a strategy. So long as you suck you're doing the right thing which is an absurd syllogism.</p><p></p><p>The DeBrincat trade was a spectacular, almost unfathomable failure of rebuilding GMing. DeBrincat brought back less than Brandon Hagel, and barely more than Kirby Dach.</p><p></p><p>To take three first rounders in a weak draft and not gain any capital in what's thought to be a generationally loaded 2023 draft even outside of Connor Bedard is a huge failure.</p><p></p><p>And now the clock ticks on the risk of losing Toews, and especially Kane, for nothing.</p><p></p><p>It also seems like the picks were reaches, but I have far from enough knowledge on hockey scouting to really drill down on that.</p><p></p><p>DeBrincat and Dach for three lottery tickets in a bad draft, a salary dump goalie, and a couple of late round picks, and NOTHING in the 2023 draft is just a really, really bad job, and fetishizing how long the team will be bad as a result is poor, backwards analysis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1778568, member: 746137"] It's crystal clear that the intent has been to goad Kane and Toews into requesting trades themselves. Not offering Dylan Strome is also of a piece with that. But the sports world and the sports media has become exponentially too deferential to tanking as a strategy. So long as you suck you're doing the right thing which is an absurd syllogism. The DeBrincat trade was a spectacular, almost unfathomable failure of rebuilding GMing. DeBrincat brought back less than Brandon Hagel, and barely more than Kirby Dach. To take three first rounders in a weak draft and not gain any capital in what's thought to be a generationally loaded 2023 draft even outside of Connor Bedard is a huge failure. And now the clock ticks on the risk of losing Toews, and especially Kane, for nothing. It also seems like the picks were reaches, but I have far from enough knowledge on hockey scouting to really drill down on that. DeBrincat and Dach for three lottery tickets in a bad draft, a salary dump goalie, and a couple of late round picks, and NOTHING in the 2023 draft is just a really, really bad job, and fetishizing how long the team will be bad as a result is poor, backwards analysis. [/QUOTE]
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