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Originally Posted by UFO
There's a lot of being scared a single player traded away will come back and haunt you, I feel like we as canuck fans are particularly vulnerable and insecure. So what if Schneider and the oilers maybe knock us out in the future? Just means that they as a team are better than we are, and its hard to be as bad as the oilers for so many years while stock piling high first round picks and still not be a good team despite the promise and potential.
What if Schneider turns out to bomb in his first season of a true full 60 game workload playing behind a non existent oilers defense? Or the pick and prospect we get in return end up developing into a toews and kane?
Gmmg got screwed by some bad timing imo. Luongo's contract sucks much more now than with the old cba under which it was negotiated. The past shortened season allowed many more teams to stay in the playoff hunt at the trade deadline leading to less trade potential. Buyouts allow teams to pick up good guys with bad contracts for free, which some are hoping lu will fall under. None of this is mg's fault. Had mg traded Lu for a 2nd round pick right after the kings knocked us out, everyone would have been up in arms about giving him away. Tomorrow, I doubt Luongo even gets back a 2nd rounder.
Schneider should have been on the trade block the moment Lu signed his 12yr deal, where mg screwed up was keeping Schneider and developing him as far as he did to maximize the return, to the point where he became a better starter option than Lu.
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That's one interpretation of it.
GMMG isn't a victim of bad timing. He's a victim of his own miscalculation and poorly playing his cards. Wasn't it last year his statement was he was holding out on current Luongo offers because the offers wasn't high enough and would wait for the "right offer?"
There's a reason why Luongo isn't getting any interest even in the slightest, and we'd be fools to think that this is
solely because of his contract. We would just as equal a fool should we dismiss why Corey is commanding higher returns right now.