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Originally Posted by Eric Vail
When Las Vegas decided against taking one of our prospects and instead picked a UFA that they could have signed on July 1, that said something about the value of those prospects.
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Oh, give it a rest.
Yes, the players the Flames left exposed were not especially valuable players, but that does not somehow mitigate against the whole system which does in fact contain some excellent and highly sought after players—most of which were not eligible for expansion. We heard just this AM from Elliotte Friedman about how hard Garth Snow pushed to have one of the Flames young defense prospects included in the Hamonic deal.
And no, we do not actually know that VGK could simply have waited until 1 July to sign Engelland. I certainly do not believe that they could have signed him for the same bargain price.