Soapy wrote:So what is the lesson that you were going to tell me on March 1st? that the best trade is no trade? I bet that was NOT what you were thinking....some thing bold perhaps.....neither was I.......MG has turned out to be more of a PAT QUINN than the 'pile of shit agent' that i thought was dropping in on us......
Soapy, let me preempt this with the comment that I would like to add to the discussion but am by no means attacking, just debating.
I wasn't that much of a fan of Nonis but definitely would have liked to see AV get canned before him. That said, there were several things that I did not like during his tenure. One of the most aggravating was his consistent spending of draft picks on the ilk of Weinrich, Carney, Sanderson etc. Not that our drafting at that time was good enough to have made those draft picks worth something.... Hated the singing of Cloutier, but he did come back with one of the best trades in Canuck history.
Now, while I would not espouse the opinion that the best trade is no trade, I would say better no trade than a bad one. Yes, there is a dearth in our third line centre position, but that is not nearly as serious as a problem on one of the two top lines. Had we still been playing like the team of January, I would full-heartedly agree with you that Gillis did not do enough, but, as it stands right now, I don't have too much of a problem with his lack of activity on deadline day.
I also wonder as to how much team chemistry factored into his activity, or lack thereof. I haven't seen the team gelling like this for quite some time and, while that is more of an intangible, I still think it weighs heavily on a team's success. Now maybe that wasn't the reason he didn't make any trades and maybe he had some good potentials on the table and didn't pull the trigger, but what I do like about this deadline is that Gillis didn't panic; he held fast and, while that may not have been the best decision, in my opinion it was much better than another Smolinski, Bergevin, etc.
Now after all of that pontification, let me submit that, if he lets the Sedins walk without any return on July 1, I will come to agree with you.
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