Judge
11-14-2002, 01:45 PM
I hadn't thought about this for a while, but when I saw that Slava Kozlov scored the game-winner for Atlanta last night it hit me-
WE GOT NOTHING IN RETURN FOR HASEK! We had the best hockey player (arguably) in the NHL, and gave him away for what? Kozlov and some conditional draft picks that may have evaporated because Hasek retired?
Then we move Kozlov for a bag of pucks in the offseason.
So we parlayed our biggest asset for absolutely nothing.
What a disgrace. That's more embarrassing than anything else in recent Sabres history, IMHO. At least we got some young players with a ton of upside potential for Pecca- whether Tim Connelly uses his potential like Rob Johnson's used his is another question, but there's some possibility for SOME return.
To give up our biggest asset and have nothing at all to show for it is really hard to grasp.
WE GOT NOTHING IN RETURN FOR HASEK! We had the best hockey player (arguably) in the NHL, and gave him away for what? Kozlov and some conditional draft picks that may have evaporated because Hasek retired?
Then we move Kozlov for a bag of pucks in the offseason.
So we parlayed our biggest asset for absolutely nothing.
What a disgrace. That's more embarrassing than anything else in recent Sabres history, IMHO. At least we got some young players with a ton of upside potential for Pecca- whether Tim Connelly uses his potential like Rob Johnson's used his is another question, but there's some possibility for SOME return.
To give up our biggest asset and have nothing at all to show for it is really hard to grasp.