2011 NHL Trade Deadline = Bust

Not much worth talking about happened on deadline day 2011 in the NHL.  Minor league swaps, role player additions, and boyes to Buf.

In oilerville the talk is about Dustin Penner, whose trade is regarded as the biggest move of the day.  My initial reaction was that this trade makes some sense.  A young player who was a top 15 pick, another first round pick this year and third round (maybe second) next year.  What followed was extensive debate and many arguments both for and against this trade.  After listening to many points of view and reviewing Teubert's history I'm leaning toward this trade being a bust.

I previously posted that we shouldn't trade Penner.  He scores.  He is big.  We don't have that anywhere else in the lineup.  Trading him and not getting something that fills the void back pushes our rebuild back even further, and could make the going a lot tougher for our young players in the next year or two as they will face the top checkers and defense the opposition has.  We didn't fill the void.  A late first round pick won't fill the void.  A third round pick next year won't fill the void.  And Teubert definitely won't fill the void.

Sure, we may package that pick for something better, but we will have to give up something else we already have.  There was no need to make this trade and if this was the best offer out there we should have passed.