NHLBy Jay Rigdon on

The Chicago Blackhawks traded promising winger Alex DeBrincat to the Ottawa Senators for a surprisingly small return.

Yes, they received a top-ten pick in tonight’s NHL Draft, along with two other lesser selections, but DeBrincat is a rising star; just 24, he made his first All-Star roster this season en route to tallying 41 goals and 37 assists.

The odds of finding a player with any of these picks who will be better than him over the next ten years feels slim, yet that’s exactly the decision Chicago made.

It was the Blackhawks announcing the move on Instagram that led to the most widely circulated reply, though, from none other than the city of Chicago itself.

 

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Replying to that post with a simple “L”, the official account for Chicago racked up over 7,000 likes in a true display of populist democracy in action.

Let’s hope whichever social media manager made the call on this one gets rewarded for it, because, honestly: it’s a bad trade! Especially considering the possible reasoning was “GM wants draft pick at all costs, ignoring relative asset valuation.”

If ever a faceless city account is going to pile on the home team, it might as well be for a move like this one.

About Jay Rigdon

Jay is a columnist at Awful Announcing. He is not a strong swimmer. He is probably talking to a dog in a silly voice at this very moment.

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