Quoting: Onlyfairtrades1
Drury would be instantly fired if he did that trade. Horrible idea for the Rangers.
I can see Drury making that stupid trade - it's not like he has had a fantastic track record so far. Here are some of his greatest hits:
signed Nemeth for 3 yrs @ 2.25M a year.
wasted money signing Tinordi when there were plenty of more serviceable LD available
acquired Reaves and immediately gave him a 1 year extension for no reason.
Traded for Blais - gave up Buch for him. I know Rangers weren't going to be able to keep him in 22-23 but they would have been better off signing him to a 1 year deal and trading him at the deadline instead of using him to acquire a player that was always in and out of the doghouse in STL and most likely would have been cut if not for this trade
Traded for Tyler Motte twice - which he would never have had to do if he didn't sign Reaves to that extension
Not to mention his horrendous skills in cap management (only GM that never used paper transactions with waiver eligible players to bank cap space, didn't put Lindgren on LTIR combined with the ridiculous pursuit of a damaged Kane forced the team to play the last 25 games of the year extremely shorthanded - few games with only 15 skaters).