By announcing to the entire league Panarin was gone no matter what, Drury diminished his value, same goes for Trocheck Kreider Kakko and Trouba.
The return for Trocheck should’ve been the prospect, a 1st and Durzi. Durzi has missed 70+ games the last 2 seasons due to injury. Far from a slam dunk. The prospect isn’t even a top 3 prospect in Utah’s system.
Trocheck is on one of the best contracts in the entire league and top 5 faceoff guy with a solid 2 way game that is one of the best on the PK. Drury failed yet again by showing his hand.
The Nemeth trade was a disaster. No one would ever say the 35th and 43rd pick is a good deal for dumping a contract DRURY signed the player to a year before.
I’ve seen numerous blogs, people talk about (maybe not on here bc there’s no one left on here) talk about recouping the pick down the road if it doesn’t work out for Petterson. You don’t trade future 1sts when you just finished bottom 3 in the league and dead last in the East.
The Doro trade wasn’t the right time. Same goes for Miller. This team needed a rebuild, not a retool and I’d much rather have Nesbitt in the system over JT Miller on the decline at 33 years old. I’m thinking long term, not fighting for a wild card spot this year and HOPING things work out. Drury put us in this mess and he’s compounded it and hurt the future of this team.