I just don’t get it: we’ve been watching this same core 4 shit the bed over and over and over again, to the point where we’re (still) the laughing stock of the league, just a different brand of Maple Laffs.
We move Marner and get a serviceable 3C and our center depth is as good as it has been in years. We land a young playmaker with lots of upside for peanuts. Our D is still very good, our goaltending is still very good… we have cap space, the GM isn’t signing terrible UFA deals, and we’re in really good shape to make a trade for a bonefide top 6 winger especially if we can move out Kampf and Reaves and have all summer to do it.
Some of you just want to be miserable.
*ONE* of us just wants to be miserable. The best part is, there was NOTHING Tre could have done to keep Marner. He had one foot out the door for well over a year now. There is no amount of money he would have accepted to stay. But, might as well yell at the clouds to get the attention his parents probably never gave him.