Honestly, really solid move. This plus the Hagelin move make me pretty excited to see how things go from here. Overall I've been pretty damn pleased with GMBM's work dating back to a few years ago. Say what you will about the players' performances/contracts, but I feel like Niskanen, Orpik, Oshie, Williams, Kempny, Eller were solid moves made by him. Even the Shattenkirk deal, even if it ended up sucking, I liked the fact that he had the balls to grab the most sought after trade deadline guy. BMac has also done some addition by subtraction, dumping guys like Laich and Brouwer, and also his move of getting Orpik, realizing the contract wasn't right, trading him to COL, and then picking him back up again at a much cheaper price. I give his overall management of the team's roster an A- so far, perhaps dropping down to a B+ if he keeps that loser Burakovsky for too long.
That said, I still have SERIOUS doubts about Reirden and still think he should have been fired a while ago. Reirden's been given a solid roster to work with, improved with the past couple of moves. It's his job to make the roster perform to the best of its ability, and he's utterly failed there. I mean, you see what is being accomplished with Trotz in Long Island this year, and last year in Vegas, and you wonder why we can't take a more talented roster and perform better than those teams. I mean yes I felt like our roster had some weaknesses here and there, but primarily my rage at the Capitals this season were due primarily to coaching. Even if certain players were being complete retards over and over again, I still blamed coaching for not addressing those issues. I still don't have any faith in TR.
