In the end, the Alexander Semin experiment ended about as bady as it could have - and the way many people feared it would - with the forward placed on waivers in December.
A lot of the talk will be about Semin not being good enough, and the move not paying off. Some people will say he never got a fair chance and was doomed from the start. There are elements of truth in both those statements but the main one I want to make today is that I would want Marc Bergevin to take that chance every day of the week.