Newly appointed Montreal Canadiens GM Pierre Gauthier may have single-handedly ruined trade deadline day. How you ask? Well, by trading a second round draft pick for the ultra-pompous, offensively inept Dominic Moore, he changed the landscape of the trading community. Think about some of the other names in play - Ponikarovsky, Whitney, Tkachuk, and so on. Before the Moore trade, a second-round pick seemed like a reasonable price to pay for those listed, but now, if you're Brian Burke or Jim Rutherford or anyone else with a marketable top-six forward, you're going to want more. A lot more.
In theory, that would mean either a first-round pick, or a second-round pick and a highly regarded prospect, and maybe even more draft picks. Will this be cause for hesitation? Maybe. I suppose if you're a team like Toronto and you know you're out of it, and 3p.m. is approaching you might cave in and settle for anything (though I standby the opinion that Ponikarovsky should be signed to a long-term extension). But if you're Carolina or St. Louis, you're still in the playoff mix and it's going to take a lot more than what Florida got for Dominic Moore to get you excited.
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