Why bother rehashing this again and again?Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:33 am Again Doc. How many positions did they give up in that swap of picks?
The issue people have with Sutter is not necessarily the player himself (he’s a good third-like C). People don’t like it because:
-He wasn’t an obvious upgrade on what we had at the time (Bobino was a decent 2nd line C for us);
- People wanted a rebuild. Bonino had significant value to a contender. He was cheap and (as we saw in Pittsburgh) productive. He should have been moved for draft picks and/or prospects (or kept for another year as a cheap placeholder) not packaged up for another veteran;
- The Sutter acquisition (like Gudbranson) is a prime example of the futility of JB’s “retool” strategy. We filled a need (Depth C) that was like 14th on our list of things that needed to happen, and about 3 years from when we really needed it.
So yeah, it’s less about moving down in the draft than it is about the strategy behind the acquisition. We didn’t need a Brandon Sutter, we needed more lottery tickets. Instead of packaging bonino and moving down in the draft we should have had 1-2 more young assets to develop, and filled the hole via UFA.