Trades are always difficult because, each club doesn't want to LOSE a trade. In all fairness the club blew it by not getting DSP in the deadline deal as well as not furthering it's position in the draft. I never questioned what Bonino could bring.
- rugdnit

DSP would have been a great addition.

But with how well Bonino has turned out, exceeding expectations of many, it is easy to forget we should have gotten more...

That whole addition by subtraction stuff usually comes across as sour grapes, but not really in this circumstance.


Compared to last year, we have more scoring punch with the addition of Vrbata, issues in the crease are greatly reduced with the addition of a tender that wants to be here. Defense may not be as good as last year without Garrison, but want to reserve judgement of that as Stanton looks better and Tanev has only gotten better too.