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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4 at 4:09 p.m.
Thread: pit competitive
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>fil97</b></div><div>trust me as a pens fan teravainen is much better than smith and rakell.

smith had a great start but after like game n.12 he stopped producing. he is a good player didn't really work with us. it can be even more than a 5th for him but I dindn't want people to focus on the trade rather on how good or bad this team would look like.

rakell had a down year also injured. he also is a good player but in all honesty the contract doesn't look great.</div></div>

Teravainen only had like 16 more points than Rakell who had a down year, playing with injury, and played less games. He’s not much better…definitely not better enough to warrant trading a top goalie prospect and Puustinen to dump Rakell for him.
I’m not bothered by the smith trade here, that was just more in general because a lot of people trade him then sign Debrusk to a worse contract. But it’s been happening a lot with Rakell too with people dumping him then signing guys like Teravainen or Debrusk. At least go after a big name if you’re going to dump him lol