The_Child_Prodigy wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Hes had some nice hits here and is starting to learn the rotation.
Chico Resch
If it ain't broke, don't trade it
Mar 01, 2007
In regards to the David Hale trade, what every young draft-able Devil faces when he comes to the organization is probably three years of scrutiny and evaluation on whether he will get good enough to become a regular Devil. They were trying to evaluate whether or not David was going to be one of the top four defensemen of the future with the Devils.
With the emergence of Johnny Oduya and the fact that David was injured and wasn't having the kind of year he had hoped to have, it caused the Devils to make the evaluation that David wasn't going to be in the top four in the near future, making him expendable.
By your third year you'd better look like you're making enough improvements in one of the roles they drafted you to fill. If not, then Lou Lamoriello is the type of General Manager who makes decisions. If things aren't working the way he and the Devils thought they would, then they switch gears.
Andy Greene, the free agent they signed out of Miami University, emerged and developed at a faster rate. They feel he can play the role David Hale was playing, but also add some offense on the power play, which wasn't David's game.
I'm glad to hear that David is playing well in Calgary, and I wish him best of luck. It just didn't work here, but so did other guys like Commadore so you never know.