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I believe the thing that killed Drury in this trade is time.
Had he not gone viral globally that he was trading Panarin, yet rather sat down with Bread and his agent, asked them what their ideal destinations were, had not benched him and had him off the team in 72 hours… I think the return would have been closer to was we would have wanted. But instead he gave the GMs time, and in that time one clever GM realized what he could do to position himself ahead of everyone else. Then it went from 4… maybe 5 interested teams, to 1… and any leverage Drury may have had to get a better deal was gone.
No question his options were limited but he did have options. Plus he ceded all the control to Panarin and his agent, who had most of it anyway due to the NMC and NTC.
I think ultimately the cherry on top is Holland had a contract ready to go with a number that majority of the teams interested couldnt match. Holland knew this and eliminated all the competition.
No question his options were limited but he did have options. Plus he ceded all the control to Panarin and his agent, who had most of it anyway due to the NMC and NTC.
I think the problem with the notion that Drury’s hands were tied is that deadline rentals with limited options fetch double what we got.
Someone posted this in ACGM and its not a bad idea. We take Laine off MTL’s hands for the fee of a 2nd round pick, without any retention.
Do we think Drury was like “nah I’m not gonna ask for a 1st?” Or do we think LA said “take it or leave it. We will just sign him in the offseason”. Like come on guys. I’m the number 1 drury hater. He sucks shit. I just don’t know what you think he should have done differently outside of waiting til the real trade deadline, which could backfire too
I will judge him by Trocheck, who we cannot afford to keep due to how much he could fetch us in a trade. He’s got term and only a modified NTC
I will judge him by Schneider, who apparently has trade value for some reason. You trade him if you can get anything good
If we get to the seasons end and no other major roster players have been moved it’s an abject failure
Perhaps not announce to the league that we werent going to resign him????
Taking into account for what we got back for CK20 and Trouba, this is a home run. If Morrow turns out to be an NHL player, we win the Miller trade otherwise its another loss, a late First rounder doesnt move the needle for me.
