Prompt 1:
The worst trade in penguins franchise history was trading a second round pick for “future considerations” to the Vegas Golden Knights before they joined the league. These so called “future considerations” ended up being them picking our best goalie from the roster. Why Jim Rutherford decided that this was the best course of action, I will never know. I’d be fine if we just made Fleury available and let them make their own decision. But to pay a second round draft pick for them to take him is just absolutely bonkers. As a penguins fan, I completely expected to be losing a goalie in the expansion draft. However, I also thought that maybe by paying a second round pick we had convinced Vegas to take a depth forward. This trade seems to look even worse after every season that passes. The very next season, while both Fleury and the Penguins lost to Washington that year, Fleury made it to the finals and the Penguins won their last round since Fleury left them, a first round series. Ever since Fleury left he has won five rounds and the Penguins have won one. Hindsight may be 2020, but man it felt like we got a bad deal ever since the expansion draft.