Quoting: MisstheWhalers
-Trading up to draft Logan Stanley
-The Mason dump trade costing Armia
-The Hayes trade, the 18-19 Jets were crashing and burning, he should of been selling at that TDL not trading 1sts and young players for rentals that were NEVER signing in Winnipeg
-All the depth acquisitions at the 2019 TDL were pointless, yes only late round picks but still uneccessary and picks thrown away for essentially nothing
-The Stastny trade, yes it was moderately successful but still a 1st gone for a rental, wouldn't Sandin look great in a Jets jersey?
-The Vegas expansion draft trade, could of had Suzuki, should of just traded them Copp or Dano or someone with a 2nd round or later pick to not take whoever they were worried about losing
-The Eakin trade, why did he give Vegas a 3rd/4th for their cap dump? So they could trade for Lehner, will Chevy get his name on the cup if Lehner leads the Knights to a cup win?
-He hung on to Trouba WAY TOO LONG till his value was low cause he had only one year of RFA left, he trades him sooner and the return would of been better
-Are we still pumped about the DeMelo trade? A smallish and slow UFA dman who's probably best suited to third pair D work, think I might prefer to have that 3rd round pick now.
So look at that list and tell me which of those trades were huge wins, sorry I don't see any.
He did great with the Ladd TDL trade and has been on a slide ever since with crappy rental trades ever since.
Armia is a better then average bottom 6 player, he's the bottom 6 player a team should try to keep, the ones the Jets kept are the ones you should try to move and no this isn't a "grass is greener on the other side" take, I hated that trade from day one cause Armia is a good player.
I'm not sure if I'd want to bring Stempniak out of retirement but to be honest he'd probably be better than some of the Jets current bottom 6 players, how pathetic is that?... 😂
It just sounds like a lot of hindsight is 20/20 kind of revisionist thinking.
- Stanley is only 22 and they said he was a project that would take a long time to develop. It's still to early to call this one a failure.
- Mason, we needed a backup possible starter and he was one of the only ones around. Armia was going nowhere above the 3rd line in Winnipeg. His stats are inflated playing higher in the lineup on a bad team. He'd never have that opportunity in Winnipeg as he's not good enough.
- Hayes, they still believed they had a shot at a playoff run, giving up and being a seller doesn't send a good message to a team. But here, you're giving Chevy a black mark for doing exactly what every other NHL GM would have done in his position. Had the Jets won, everyone would be saying it's brilliant.
- Expansion draft, you can't blame him for trying to keep together what was at the time a top 5 team in the NHL.
TDL 2019, as you said were late round picks for low end guys, yet here you're advocating trading a former first round pick that is only 21 for a 27 year old, meh rental. I would bet you would be counting this as one of Chevy's flops if he made this deal and it's turns out to be a mistake as it would be.
- Stastny was a good trade, no other way to look at it. At least as far as TDL trades go.
- Trouba, he had no choice as it would be stupid to trade away half of your shutdown pairing when contending. It wasn't holding onto Trouba too long that hurt his value, it was the fact that Trouba would only accept a trade to one team. Although when you look at the Jets getting Heinola and Pionk for Trouba, right now that is a clear win for the Jets.
- Demelo is a good trade for what we paid.
You really seem to be placing a lot of weight on 4 games when half our top 6 was missing. Which is fine, everyone has an opinion. I just prefer to think more long term a evaluate the deals on what was happening at the time, not simply on, well we didn't win the Cup so it was a mistake line of thinking.