smyth260 wrote on Fri, 08 July 2022 11:47

Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 08 July 2022 10:42 Adam wrote on Fri, 08 July 2022 10:37 .. suggesting that Holland intentionally traded for Keith knowing he'd retire and he'd get back the cap space that he only gave up because he acquired Duncan Keith... To be fair no one knows he didn't.. all's well that ends well. But we could have won more than 8 games in the playoffs with the 2 leading scorers had we had 5.5 million to spend on a better defense. Even if this was Hollands plan, it was still a bad plan.

No matter what, it is still a terrible, terrible trade. He could have been an all-star last year and it would be bad still, because Holland didn't understand the value of cap space, and he didn't understand the leverage available when the player was forcing a trade with only 1-2 locations possible. Even if we get the extra $3MM (that I don't think our team is smart enough to fight for), if we wanted Keith (which I don't think we should have) then we should have, in the words of Ken Holland, got him for free. Or better yet, made Chicago pay us to take him.

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