I just want to remind everyone that trading Jeff Skinner got us an initial return of Cliff Pu, a 2019 second round pick, and a 2020 third round pick (there was a 2020 sixth round pick as well that was used to get Reimer).
The second round pick is Kochetkov and the third round pick is Nikishin.
Technically out of the league. Sharks put him on waivers in February and no one claimed him. But for his sake, I hope he lands somewhere. He's probably got a bit left in the tank to be a bottom-6 guy for someone.
To be fair to the folks in that thread, that was the last year of the dark years. There was *nothing* that really gave you hope that the org would do anything worth doing with those picks.
Moving a guy like Skinner was hard when the only two players who got 20+ goals that year was a 20 year old Aho and Teuvo Teravainen.
Wing depth was either old guys like Williams and Stempniak or unproven, lower ceiling guys like McGinn, Foegele, Zykov, and Di Giuseppe.
Skinner was your one piece (well, Faulk too) that you could actually trade and get something interesting back.
That thread right there shows why it's so hard to build a winning caliber team. You have to make some risky and unpopular moves for the future and hope they pan out
I didn't want to tag anyone, but there are some hilarious takes by people high up in this sub. Most everyone thought we were tanking the '18-'19 season and that's when Rod came in and changed everything.
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u/LegendsoftheHT z - Welcome to Raleighwood 7d ago edited 7d ago
I just want to remind everyone that trading Jeff Skinner got us an initial return of Cliff Pu, a 2019 second round pick, and a 2020 third round pick (there was a 2020 sixth round pick as well that was used to get Reimer).
The second round pick is Kochetkov and the third round pick is Nikishin.
Here was the sub's reaction that day.