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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 7 at 12:50 p.m.
Thread: Main players in the trade talks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>Oh I agree it was a mistake to chase Rutherford out. Not that he didn't make mistakes. But I think his biggest was his faith in Sully.
He listened to sully instead of Cole, Kessel and god knows who else Sully chased out the door.
Sully lost the room long ago and needs to go.
I sure know one thing, he wouldn't have done the horrible crap Hextall did to PIT. That Marino trade set this team back and that's just the 1st dumb decision.

Problem is Dubas isn't the guy to fix it. But at least he'll get value out of Jake in trading him.</div></div>

The problem at the time in 2018 was trading for Derick Brassard. The team didn’t have a need for him, it was to try and put us over the top but that backfired big time as Brassard just didn’t seem to want to win for some reason and played his worst hockey possible. He played with no heart and it was like the second he was traded out of Pittsburgh he started playing better. The thing that pissed me off the most was him just pissing away every game. He even played a good amount of games with Geno and pissed that away.
Unfortunately for Phil Kessel, Geno got tired of playing with him. Behind the scenes I think they got in to it a lot but Kessel wanted to stay on a line with Geno. A choice had to be made and it was Kessel’s time to go sadly.
Maybe if we just gave Rutherford more time he would not be seeing the ship sinking. Because the winning part to the shortened season became possible because of JR. He wanted to see the team reborn with the speed identity. Acquired Tanev, Kapanen, Matheson, McCann, ERod, Zucker. The growth of Blueger, ZAR, and Marino in our own system. Literally Hextall ruined all of that 😂. But I’d rather not stay in the past with all that.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 6 at 8:42 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 5 at 2:42 a.m.
Thread: Who would be takers on Smith and Rakell
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>Puustinen isn't really an NHL level player.
So If Poulin is being called up he's probably the one going down.

They aren't going to move Smith or Rakell to make room for call ups.
Lets be honest they can move Harkins as well if they need to make room. It's not huge loss. But he's probably better off getting 3rd line minutes and role.

I don't even think it's a good idea to unload Smith. I'd rather keep him in his contract year.
They can always move him next year as a deadline rental if they aren't going anywhere to get something from him.
But this year there is no real reason to.
Especially if they are going to move Jake. Which who knows if they do or don't. If they do that, they create a hole on the LW. Moving both Smith and Jake they don't really have the bodies to replace them both.</div></div>

I really don’t think Jake will be moved. If the team wants to have future success keeping Jake is the only way. Who else has consistently played with Sid on the wing for this long? The ideal situation is to keep working on an extension.

Also Puustinen can put up the points. I don’t see how he isn’t NHL level. Moving Smith and Rakell, maybe the better situation is finding teams willing to make swaps and can risk taking those guys on while matching as much cap as possible.