Kevin Allen: Three wise men making smart decision from their GM chair Guerin, Yzerman, Zito doing a quality job of transforming their franchises

I very much doubt that GM McClellan cares what Vrana does or does not do either as these two teams are on entirely different paths at the moment. Vrana was lazy on the boards and forechecking something the organization got tired of this year. Both are good players and as far as we know, the picks gotten, which gave the Caps the other thing they desperately needed, cost certainty, might turn out to be nothing. Come back in 4 or 5 years and see how it went. Not much can be judged about the deal until then.

Zito.

Traded Matheson for Hornqvist.
Brought in Verhaeghe, Duclair, Gudas, Forsling, Wennberg.
Overcame the expected negative effects of losing Hoffman and Dadanov.
Trade deadline moves to get Bennett, Gusev, Montour.

This is an entirely new and more competitive Panthers team that is fighting for top seed in the Central despite losing Aaron Ekblad.

Go Panthers!

Bill Zito is the man this year. The King Midas touch for sure. Love how they are doing so well.