Before you judge the Scandella trade

Yeah, it's expected that you gotta pay for retention and reduced cap....

DeMelo : Better defenseman, 1/4 of Scandella's original price: Third round pick.

Dillon : Better defenseman, also retained. Cheaper contract : 2nd and 3rd.


It's pretty likely that STL meets the conditions and gives up the 4th. At that rate it would have been better to give the value equivalent to a pair of 2nds for Dillon.

Difficult to not judge what has been the day's most "out there" trade.

You didn't only pay for retention. You also paid for MTL taking on risk for you. At the time of MTL's acquisition, Scandella was getting scratched, so who knew if he was gonna pan out?

I think the DeMelo trade is the outlier - not sure why Dorion didn't get more.

And you think that conditional 4th is likely met? Blues probably won't re-sign Scandella next year, and reaching the WCF is a tall task, nothing near "likely" IMO.

Ummm, no. I could certainly debate your opinion comments on Scandella vs. other players/trades, but you obviously have not noticed what I'm trying to get you to notice. Look again.

Anything short of the WCF for this team is a failed year. Tarasenko should be back by then too. It's not a horrible deal that was made, but WSH didn't have to pay this much for retention. Two trades for different categories of defensemen getting the same return looks off .

Hopefully his play proves us wrong.