You guys are the kings of picking and choosing 🤣
Imagine for one second that we didn’t trade Buchnevich, and signed him to the deal the blues did..and he had 11 goals right now. Would that be going over well? I mean we tear Zib apart and it was the exact same thing, post contract hasn’t aged very well. And Blais tore is knee up, Drury obviously didn’t plan on that. He wasn’t the same after that. He barley got a real look until that happen anyway. Again Buch was overrated imo too, and he wast treated like an all star at the time of the trade. He was a decent player nothing spectacular
I’m with you, they could fire the scouting guys for all I care. But also, most of the picks Drury has made are at least incomplete. Need time to evaluate that. Othmann hasn’t looked great is fair. But Laba was Drury pick in rd 5 I think? Maybe 4th. He’s been a solid contributor.
I’m just saying you guys jump all over everything with him, selling is different than buying. Give him a freakin chance. So far so good imo. Soucy trade was a wash and Greentree is a first rder for a guy who picked where he wanted to go.
Its not so much that he traded Buch, he traded a guy coming off a near point per game season for nothing. Thats the problem.
You gotta figure other teams were calling, but Drury was fixated on Blais. Lets look at that small sample size before the injury, 19 games, Blais was a bottom 6 player averaging 13 minutes a game. They traded a RW1 playing over 18 min a game, for a bottom 6 depth player who played LW of all positions. At a time when we had Panarin, Kreider and had just drafted LAF. Still to this day, since that trade, theyre trying to find a RW1.