Quoting: yeeteridoo
They traded picks and prospects for Hall, Foligno, Perry and Beauvillier just this offseason and start of season...
Well first off they traded for Hall, Foligno and Perry at the draft last summer not 30 games into the season when they are sitting dead last in the league. They also brought in those guys for the purposes of being mentors to the young guys this season and to help them get to the cap floor.
Secondly, as part of the Hall/Foligno deal they traded two defensemen who had been given opportunities in Chicago and never grab a hold of the positions and ended up being surpassed by numerous other young d-men in the system. They had become expendable for the Hawks given the emergence of Vlasic, Korchinski, Phillips, etc.
For Perry they gave up a 7th round pick… that’s it, not a 3rd and 7th. On top of that Perry’s contract had expired the Hawks weren’t doing Tampa a favour by taking cap off their books like they would be doing for Montreal in this proposal.
As for Beauvillier, his acquisition was necessitated due to the injuries to Hall and Athanasiou as well as the Perry incident. They also only gave up a 5th round pick not a 3rd and 7th.