It was pretty hard to make that evaluation, bearing in mind while Demko looked like a great prospect, he hadn't set the world on fire in the starts he had made...
On top of that, with Markt playing as well as he did, it would be hard to give Demko an extended run...
They may even have known, how good he was going to be, but wanted to sneak him through in the expansion draft... or maybe didn't expect Demko to be this good, and was planning on running with Marky...
Unfortunately either ideas were dead, with Markys injury and Demmers playing lights out...
Hindsight is a fabulous thing, but this one I wouldn't hang management up on... at all...