Quoting: ajc
Why is it so bad Pageau is a very good center and excellent faceoff man and playoff performer. I have to admit Ritchie is a flyer but I am not sold on Heinen , he will be lucky to have a 30 point year, just a prediction.
okay well let's go trade by trade. I'm not a big Krug fan at all, and would love him traded, but he's a 59 point d man in a time where puck moving d men are in demand! You're trading him for a mediocre 30 point center. Garbage value.
The ritchie trade is honestly not even worth addressing, but I will anyway because I'm bored. Oh he had a bad few games and you think he's going from a 47 point rookie season to sub 30 because he had a bad 3 or 4 games to start the year? get real. Also, 30 points huh, wanna know what that would be? Ritchie's career high by a mile. Heinen has one fewer point in his one 77 game season, than Ritchie does in his 195 game career. think about that.
Heinen is better offensively, defensive, with the puck, without the puck, winning battles etc. He's younger, he's cheaper, they have his rights for longer, and some how you're throwing in one of the bruins top prospects too? Dumpster fire trade. If they called this trade into the league, the league offices would assume it was a prank call.