Varly was a good trade at the time, needed a number 1 and he manned the fort. The 11th overall that was Forsberg wouldnt have helped them get over the hump (and Wsh gave up on him too early too). I am ok with that trade.
Shattenkirk-Johnson is a wash of a trade, both teams got the Dman they needed that their development systems didnt have. Avs needed a big minute munching Dman and Blues needed a offensive puck mover. I think both fan bases are happy with the trade.
Stastny walking sucked, but they were certain he was going to stay with the 6.6m 4 year deal that they offered him, he went for the 7m 4 year deal to go to the Blues, sucks it went down that way.
ROR wanted 8mx8years from the Avs and wanted the 1C role, he was open about those demands knowing the Avs would never do that, he forced his way out of town. They were not going to pick ROR over MacKinnon, thats what it was boiling down to so they had to move him. Grigorenko is a solid player, if you watch him you can see hes really sound defensively and can play in multiple roles, will be a good 30-40 point man this year. Zads is a 20 year old dman with top pairing potential...what did you think was going ot happen? Hes good just needs time to develop.
Seriously Anderson? Thats just a weird thing to bring up.
Avs have made some head scratching moves over the years but they have made some really solid ones too, they arent some dumpster fire of management group that main stream media makes them out to be. Stop listening to the professional Trolls in Yost and Mirtle
- DDM-Coga
Anderson and Zibanejad for Elliot and Landeskog. Pretty awesome deal if you ask me
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