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Originally Posted by ZiggyPop
You're right about Dagenais. He went to play in Europe. We didn't get much for Theo, even though Aebisher is a better goalie then what he showed us in Montreal...
In the case of Ribeiro, we got crap for him.
Journalists tend to keep outside matters and personnal life problems out of the paper, most of the time at least, and that's what they did with the 3 amigos. But ask around in the right bars in Montreal or to a couple of well informed policemen and you will read some articles from the Montreal press in a different way, especially when they were reporting 'chemistry problem' with those 3.
Do I think it justifies trading Ribeiro for pretty much nothing? No. But that's not my call, obviously.
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1. I'm quite satisfied with how the Théodore trade turned up, as I was then. It was essentially a financial decision, and with the salary cap it's a great thing to get rid of a huge salary for an underachieving player.
2. When the trade was made, I wasn't immediately turned off by it. Ribeiro had his problems, and Niniimaa had been useful in the past. Well, obviously, that didn't work out. But, at the time, it made a tiny bit more sense than now - though it still wasn't the deal of the century.
3. Well, I don't hang out with policemen and I guess I'm not client to the same bars as these guys, but are recreative drugs such a horrendous offense? I mean, I guess Gainey wasn't too happy about it, rightly so, but does it make it necessary to trade them away at all costs, and to constantly keep talking of "personal problems" 4-5 years later? Well, unless it constantly made them call Gainey up in the middle of the night and saying "Hey, Bob, guess who's under me right now? Oh, by the way, your wife says hi!"