Well, every teams needs are different. So they aren't really that wildly off. Dubas lucked out finding a third team in MTL that could address some needs taking on those contracts, and so they ended up not having to pay as much. But, that team never would have been CHI. CHI would have been a last resort, and if CHI was the last resort they probably would've charged A LOT more to facilitate that trade. Luckily there was some familiarity with Petry going back to MTL, and they need a stop gap RHD. I think SJS definitely got the crap end of the entire deal. Especially if PIT makes the playoffs and even more so if they go on a long playoff run and the pick ends up very late.

They were wildly off in thinking we'd to give up all our prospects, not to mention that we don't have the prospects to make it happen.
That we'd have to spend all of our picks just to move Granlund and Petry.

Again, Dubas lucked out finding teams with needs that could be addressed on the cheap. I'm actually surprised MTL got as much as they did with them also shedding Hoffman's contract on top of it. I figured that would've been closer to an even swap. But, SJS really had ZERO leverage. They played chicken and lost, big time. That 1st round pick will be VERY important for them to get right and make it all ok. Honestly, though, their rebuild was always going to be longer than they thought it would be. But, who knows, Hoffman, Granlund and Rutta could turn things around in SJS, and be valuable for them. Only time will tell.

I'm not quite sure what you're crowing about here, at least with respect to my comment. Here it is, quoted verbatim:

"I think that $8 million in retention costs more than a future third. Maybe Petry would like to play in The Windy City?

Start by taking Barabanov out of the deal. Pittsburgh has enough trouble putting together a sufficient package for Karlsson with big retention, never mind a 0.75 PPG forward too; you might get a prospect or some window-dressing but not Barabanov. O'Connor is a fourth-line forward with limited trade value and Poulin hasn't shown that he's an NHLer yet, so he has virtually none; Mike Grier isn't sitting in his office saying "Boy, I sure would like to land Pierre-Olivier Joseph" or "Boy, I sure would like to land Jeff Petry"."

So I was right -- you didn't get Barabanov, or anything close to him, included in the deal. And you didn't get $5 million in retention -- you got essentially nothing except $1.5 million for the final two years.

None of the remainder of your comment applies to me in any way whatsoever. But it does reinforce how little weight we should give to your pronouncements, because declaring victory when neither @garak nor I were wrong is prototypical.

Hey, so this didn't age well. Love how wrong you were.