Jeannot had a good year for Nashville. The next year (in which Tampa traded for him), his production had fallen off a cliff back to where you'd expect for a bottom 6 grinder.
Remember, this is a guy who scored 5 points in 52 games in his draft year in the Dub. His only year of junior where he produced at a quality level was his (overage) 20 year old season, where he put up 80 points in 72 games, playing against young competition. Really good overagers typically produce 95+ points in 68 games, so what Jeannot did was nothing extraordinary.
No one should have expected him to continue to produce like the 24 goal guy based on the track record of measly junior and minor pro production combined with the decline in his pending UFA season. Toughness and one year of production isn't worth tons of draft picks.
BriseBois could have just traded Cal Foote and a 3rd or 4th for Nick Bjugstad or Eric Robinson. Ugh