Quoting: Garak
Ugh... Sucks he hasn't worked out very well in OTT so far. CHI isn't giving up Korchinski
This ACGM is going back in time so it doesn't matter if the Hawks would give up Korchinski or not
Quoting: krakowitz
And obviously there's no guarantee Brown would tear his ACL four games in like he did with Washington, but the trade was probably necessary to gain a pick back.
We don't care about picks right now, team needs to get better results, to progress in the standings, not just in advanced stats. If they finish with the 7th-10th OA pick, that would be 3 years in a row
The right play was to extend Nick Paul (IIRC he wanted 5 years at 3.25 AAV) and then keep Connor Brown too. Connor was pissed when his friend and linemate (who he had crazy chemistry with) was traded.
Then do the Marino trade, get Bjorkstrand (or another good 2-way winger) and go :
Tkachuk - Norris - Batherson
Bjorkstrand - Stutzle - Giroux
Paul - Pinto - Brown
Crookshank - Kastelic - Watson
Brassard
Chabot - Marino
Sanderson - Zub
Holden - Hamonic
Zaitsev
The bottom-3 D is not good enough so if it's possible to give another 2nd or something instead of Brannstrom go for it. Oh and Hamonic was a bit useless since we would have went after a better RHD
That being said, Dorion and DJ smith have absolutely no idea what they are doing so what we are seeing now is not that surprising