EVERYONE WAS WRONG AND I LOVE IT!

This trade honestly exposed how little everyone on this board knows.

A million trade scenarios with EK to Pitt kind of disagrees with you. Probably finished ahead of the Nylander trades. Even the Pesce to Buffalo ones.

You're a typical Monday morning QB. You're essentially describing yourself.

I didn't see you making any EK65 trade predictions. But now you're going to talk down to everyone here. Pretty spineless guy.

You're free to go back to my discussions if you'd like before you start talking smack on something you have no clue about.

No, I was pretty accurate against the arguments on why this wouldn't happen and what the Pens would have to give up to make it happen. Feel free to sift back.

I went back and re-quoted/mentioned the people who fought me on how it would play, but not surprisingly they didn't respond.

No need to sift back. My takeaway after a bazillion of these and ALL of the hockey media constantly drumming about how EK to Pitt was moving down the tracks was that is was only a matter of time and arrangement. I can't imagine a single person being surprised this happened. Don't really care about the actual pieces myself.

Well, we at least know that Pittsburgh will be missing the playoffs this year. Yikes that forward core is terrible.

My thing here is people flamed me hard when I said...
1) Dubas had all the leverage and Grier had none.
2) Dubas won't have to use a 1st unless Petry and/or Granlund would get moved, and that even if both were moved it would only be one first.
3) That SJ would not get even close to the return they'd hope for because of Greier's lack of leverage.

They all said:
1) The Pens have no leverage
2) They'll have to use most of their picks and prospects they have just to move Petry and Granlund.
3) Nobody would ever trade for Rutta
4) DeSmith is a bum and nobody would ever want him.
5) They don't have the prospect pool to make this all happen.

In the end, Dubas spent a 1st (top ten protected), 2nd and Legare ( a crap prospect ) to not only get Petry, Granlund, DeSmith and Rutta off the books, but also get EK, a 3rd rounder and a decent depth forward.

Relax man. You're preaching to the wrong person. I wasn't in on any of that. Always best to let the season play out. Then declare victory.

You guys do know there's a forum with discussion of this trade, right? It's pretty crap that we have to scroll through pages of completely useless "AGMs".