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Maacoshark:
  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.

DC_1908:

--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Monday January 29, 2018, 02:28:05 PM Eastern ---  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.

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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

4 Caps:
Just a couple of comments.  First, even if Forsberg hadn’t developed as fast as he did, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have helped the Caps in the last couple of years.  Second, DC where did you hear that Forsberg didn’t want to play for the Caps.  That is utter nonsense, you don’t think he would have loved to play with Nick  Backstrom.  Third, despite what you say that was a horrible trade, we got a veteran who was at the end of his career and a grade B prospect who played sparingly in the NHL.  If you don’t think Forsberg would help this Caps team I don’t know what to say other than your knowledge of hockey is suspect.

alta:
I bet the Islanders are still kicking themselves in the nutsack for trading Chara, his first two years he looked like an uncoordinated oaf

DC_1908:

--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Monday January 29, 2018, 05:36:03 PM Eastern ---Just a couple of comments.  First, even if Forsberg hadn’t developed as fast as he did, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have helped the Caps in the last couple of years.  Second, DC where did you hear that Forsberg didn’t want to play for the Caps.  That is utter nonsense, you don’t think he would have loved to play with Nick  Backstrom.  Third, despite what you say that was a horrible trade, we got a veteran who was at the end of his career and a grade B prospect who played sparingly in the NHL.  If you don’t think Forsberg would help this Caps team I don’t know what to say other than your knowledge of hockey is suspect.

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I don’t have time to look for the exact evidence, but I vividly remember hearing that, and that him
falling to 11 was more then just the top 10 just wanting Ds.


What I did find is that I’m not the only one thinking logical and business like about this
[size=78%]https://www.google.com/amp/s/capsfansreport.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/defending-the-filip-forsberg-trade/amp/[/size]


One of GMGMs best traits was being rational enough to realize he’s signing and drafting assists.  Draft an asset to trade it later, keeping enough to make moves at anytime


So yeah, head case or not. FFF is just an asset that was made expendable when GMGM drafted another asset.


So if it was Kuzy that was traded, people would say the the same thing.  And if all three would be here, it would be a train wreck, on the ice and with cap.


Bottom line, it was low risk high reward business move. 

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