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Bullfrog said:I'm actually surprised it wasn't the second paragraph that was highlighted for its nonsense. The Matthias experiment didn't fail, as it consisted entirely of "can he fill an NHL roster on a bad team so that a Marlie doesn't have to fill the role?"
Well, it was all nonsense but I gave up after the first paragraph.
You're right about Matthias although I would point out that in the whole "sign a guy to a one year deal and trade him at the deadline" thing there's a much narrower gap between success and failure than we might think.
Winnik yielded a good result(although the fact that the 2nd he was traded for was a year out is overlooked I think) but think about Santorelli. Santorelli played well for the Leafs and put up good numbers and then got dealt, if the reported breakdown of that deal is true, for Leipsic. A good but not great prospect.
So if those are the highlights of the strategy than getting a 4th or something for Matthias isn't exactly some sort of crushing failure either.