Quoting: West_Virginia_Take_Me_Home
Your team is a revolving door of players that don't want to play in Buffalo you're the third most popular nhl team in your state. You got the most you could of for O'Reilly and you squandered the assets from the trade. Call it even for that abysmal trade involving Ryan Miller who showed up and actually made the team significantly worst. Very few teams out there are looking for a 10 million dollar center.
You have an accurate assessment of the situation in Buffalo.
Murray messed the the Miller trade after extracting a kings ransom for Miller.
He did really well as you indicated to get a first, third, William Carrier, Chris Stewart, and Jaroslav Halak,
Instead of just moving Halak for a decent pick he added a third to get Michal Neuvirth and cap dump Rostislav Klesla. Neuvirth is out of hockey and Klesla never reported to the Sabres.
He could have picked up 2 seconds for Stewart from Boston early in the season but instead settled for second at the TDL from Minnesota.
He flipped the first with Myers, Drew Stafford, Brendan Lemieux, Joel Armia to get Bogosian and Kane.
Kane was as distraction in Buffalo and Bogosian has been a 7th defenseman for the Bolts and Leafs while Myers was given a $6,000,000 until 2024.
Today, I wish he had waited and let Armia. Lemieux and the first round pick develop, keep Myers and traded Stafford for picks who still had talent as he had 21 goals in '15-'16 compared to Kane's 20.
Unfortunately, the Blues had to get past the eventual cup champs Hawks and while it was looking great for the Blues when Miller won the first two games in OT, they lost the next four.
As for the O'Reilly trade, it seems everyone forgets that the Blues were in last place on January third and were discussing breaking up the team at the TDL until Binnington saved the season.
Let me add, up to the Boston series, O'Reilly had the worse +/- of players on teams until the semifinals.
So if Binnington does not save the season, most people would have thought Buffalo "RAPED" the Blues in both trades and you said, would never have made another trade with Buffalo.
As a Blues fan do you have the same recollection that I do?