WRITTEN TASK

There is obviously some recency bias here but the rangers have made some pretty bad trades in the past seasons. I knew I hated this trade from the start when we traded pavel buchnevich for sammy blais and a second round pick. The rationale behind trading buchnevich was solid, we likely couldn't afford him long term, and trading him allows for the younger players to get more ice time (which they did not really get, that's a whole other thing). But the return for him is what stings. I don't think blais scored any goals for the rangers. Some of it was out of our control when blais got injured early on in his first season, but it was still a very underwhelming return for a very good player in buchnevich. He was one of my favorite rangers at the time, and he had really good chemistry with kreider and zibanejad. it would've been super cool to work some salary cap magic to keep him around but I think we all knew he had to go eventually. Just sucks that we end up with a lackluster return.