Though I agree, at the same time we as Hawk fans have seen enough of Brendan Hagel that we know what he is capable of (and what he isn't capable of). He is not elite at anything but he is a fast player who works his butt off every shift. As others have mentioned the trade was good for both teams. It is no surprise that he has fit into a talented TB team quite nicely.
Those are all players that either comparable or better than Hagel.
You’ve gone from saying 1 in 20 will make it, which was obviously wrong, to now saying 1 in 4. You might still be understating it, but let’s use that figure for argument’s sake. Chicago got two first rounders, not one. If the odds are 25% that each one will turn into a good player, that makes the odds of either one of the two turning into a good player at 44%. So Davidson turned Hagel into basically even odds that we’ll be able to replace Hagel with someone as good or better, on a timeline that works better for the rebuild and with a longer horizon to keep the player cost-controlled.
For all the bitching I do about Musto’s posts I never recall him being in the pro Kelly camp.
I was but that was back in 2018.
No I jumped ship when he picked Alex Vlasic and Michal Teply.
I encourage this behavior.
Last I checked he only had 6 goals almost 1/3 into the season. I wouldn’t be happy in their shoes either.
After the season he's having away from Kane, idk if anyone would pick up his QO. DeBrincat might end up a UFA this summer. Ottawa might have traded a 7+39 for a 1 year rental. But at the same time, Kane is having a worse season away from DeBrincat too.
Ottawa has lots of room...it’s not like they signed a couple of players to matching $10.5 million deals...their 27th in payroll right now
But it's not like the stakeholders want to go highly spending unless they think it will certainly lead to wins and up the resell value.
