i'm thrilled about the leddy & boychuk trades
leddy may have his defensive shortcomings, but he's only 23 and an rfa at the end of the season, so he's likely to be locked up for a little while after this season
they're also shortcomings in the stacked as hell central/western conference, i think he'll look a lot better against weaker competition in the east
disappointed that the isles had to give up pokka though, but he was only our 3rd best defensive prospect & hasn't played at the pro level in north america so who knows exactly how he'll pan out
i really like the boychuk trade & dgaf about the picks
we landed two legitimate top 4 defense in one day without having to give up very much of our own assets
this offseason we got halak, grabovski, kulemin, johnson and conacher
people were saying if the isles do as well as they look on paper to do, garth snow is gonna win gm of the year
it's crazy how a narrative changes after a few good moves - i've always liked snow even though i thought the vanek trade was terrible
with hamonic/de haan/boychuk/leddy/hickey/visnovsky this team has nhl caliber defense and halak/johnson is a million times better than nabokov/poulin/nilsson in goal, and our forward depth is pretty spectacular
i'm incredibly excited for this season