Furthermore Colaiacovo has proven time and time again that he is an injury prone individual, and a gamble to say the least. St. Louis would not have made a trade like this if they didn't have many of their players tied up in injury woes as well. That should stand as something on its own.
If all trades were evaluated based on the premise of potential and draft round pickes, we would have terrible concepts of evaluation (Zetterberg anyone?). Stempniak has proved that he is a considerable and formidable opponent, while Steen and Colaiacovo have left nothing but questions with no straight answers.
What Fletcher has done is maximized the minimum, by a great deal. He has moved two risky players whose time to prove their worth was slipping faster than colour in an egg-timer, for a player who is not a high risk and a proven young player. Furthermore, he removed one of the many surplus defencemen who seemed to be riding the press-box locomotive.
For the current Toronto Maple Leafs fans, I suggest a new way of thinking. Instead of focusing on what potentially could have been beneficial, why don't we look at what could have happened if Steen and Colaiacovo didn't pull through, and what we gained if they don't.
After all, we're in a rebuilding phase and it is not a time to gamble with our future. As I said, everyone is expendable.
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