One thing people forget. If we kept Forsberg in our system, would have he developed at the same rate. I highly doubt it. We had way too many guys ahead of him on the depth chart. When we traded him to Nashville, he was a first line player and playing on the top pp immediately. It would have been a slower development here.
Of the what its the Joe Sakic thing is the one I think about. Maybe the Caps though about it too since they drafted Joe Sakic's younger brother a few years later.
You’re damn right people forget that! They also forget he didn’t wanna play here, they also forget that we wouldn’t have the Young Euro Speed amd Skill Super Team they think we would, least of all with all of the guys ahead of em.
I’m sure someone out there has traded FFF to The Caps on their video games so they can have Bura/Kuzy/and FFF together. Well hope they have fun because that would be a train wreck of turnovers, loafing, bad passes and zero D in real life.
Anyone can GM in hindsight. But getting two players, one vet and one prospect, in positions of need, for a player that’s a surplus and won’t play for you, is just god damn common sense.
On the other hand, trading a top prospect in a position of need, a 2nd and 3rd when your system is depleted, for a type of player you already have that assuredly won’t stay. . .is just incompetentance, a media stunt or both