No they weren't. 3 mill for 4th liners is awful. So is 6 mill for Myers, so was Sutter's contract. He's great at drafting, he's had a few good trades. But he is absolutely useless at signing ufa's.
I have been digesting this trade since it happened, and like most JB moves it is a mixed bag. We are better, you can't deny that and the effects this will have on our young players development. But I simply cannot ignore that this only had to happen because JB handed out stupid contracts. And the fact that OEL's NMC came with him is unacceptable to me.
OEL basically has to give us 4 excellent top pairing years for this to be okay. I'm not worried about Garland, very high on him.
They don't understand when one team are smurfs and the other are huge, the smurfs don't touch the puck.
See Canucks vs Vegas in the bubble for reference.
Stromgren, Robertsson, Morrow, Tuomaala still there.
If we can get another 2nd farther back there's Chibrikov, Chayka, Stankoven, Zellwegger, Knies, Heimosalmi