Did the coyotes actually win the Domi trade

Compare Kessel and Josh Anderson, Arizona also had to add quite a bit to get Kessel.

Kessel vs. Anderson is a fair comparison. When you put it that way it does seem like a loss. The full Kessel trade was Kessel, AHL/ECHL tweener, and a 4th for Galchenyuk and Pierre Olivier Joseph. Losing POJ in hindsight hurts but at the time there were questions about whether or not he would pan out, so I remember not being too torn up about losing him.

I’m not sure how much of “insider info” this is anymore, but a team source told me at the time of the original Domi v Galchenyuk trade that the trade was forced by Tie Domi, because he wanted his son to play for a Canadian team. And Max “needed a bigger market” to get him fired up about playing hockey again. So given the circumstances I don’t hate what we got.

Agreed.

I do wonder if that Anderson contract becomes a sore point for the Habs down the road though.

If that's actually the case, I would have sent him to f*cking Siberia (Which is basically what Torts is doing with him )

Honestly though, it's mind boggling to me that Galchenyuk's 2nd best statistical season was his last in Montreal, and that his shooting percentage that season was almost 50% lower than the year before. How do you predict that a high-upside 23 year old is going to fall off a cliff so quickly?

Galchenyuk had a down year with the coyotes, but still scored at a decent pace. I remember being much more disappointed in losing him than POJ. But his career decline was certainly crazy to watch after he left.

Domi will probably get traded to Toronto for a bag of pucks like Tie always wanted and will have a career revival. He used to be one of my favorite players but now I dislike him quite a lot.