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Originally Posted by Blaster86

He's young, he'll get better, easier to control and more mature. He's what? 23, 24? Probably been your most consistent D-Man this year, has the most upside by a long shot, and will have a very friendly contract by the mid-way point of it. For spare parts.

I said a part of this core had to be dealt, but it had to be an older part. Trading Phaneuf could look like a disaster this year, but it will be a disaster in two to three years when it turns out that this deal may have been Aullie and Phaneuf for White.



Have you watched Ian White lately? Did you watch him on HNIC last night? D. Sedin's fourth goal. He's about fundamentally sound as a building built out of balsa wood on sand. Read Leaf forums on the guy. He started great, but he's fallen off. Recently the goaltending in Teronnah have been the least of their problems. It's the bad D-core that was supposed to be amazing. If White was your "must atleast get" mark for a player like Phaneuf... well I can't tell you how sad that is.




Matt Stajan is going to get eaten alive in the Wester conference. He's soft as whipped cream. Every game I've watched of the Leaf's this year he's not been noticable. He benefits from playing with Kessel now, and if Kessel's not scoring then neither is Stajan. Who are you going to put him with? Jokinen? Langkow? Nevermind the fact he's a UFA and could walk shortly.




Hagman is the only player in this deal that makes any sense from a Calgary perspective. Knows the Western Conference, played in a defensive system in Dallas under Tippett. But again, when he gets to UFA, will he stick around?




Mayers is a plug. You can try and paint him as something else, but you'd be stretching. He's not that good, and he demanded a trade while going goalless for 21. Real team guy. Nice shot last night though, maybe he can do that for the Flames 21 games from now. Make this trade look real good.



He HAD more scoring upside than McGrattan. Then he got older and less good.



On paper. Sutter does a lot of neat stuff on paper though.



At the end of this trade the only big thing the Flames get out of this is cap space to chase a UFA in the off-season. A name like Kovalchuk or somesuch to help the offense. I son't think Stajan will help as much as you're praying. Hagman will chip in, but I get the feeling Stajan will be a goat on this forum pretty fast.

Losing Phaneuf for White is going to look like the Gilmour trade in a few years, bank on it.

In other news: Boston is crying but apparently Phoenix is happy as hell

Would I have liked a 1st rounder? Sure. But I'm perfectly fine with this deal. Stajan, White and Hagman are keepers that I hope we can re-sign if they pan out and R.Bourque is a must keep player that we should have money for now.

this is a tremendous trade that I feel, anyway, will help make us a better T.E.A.M.

PS: The major jump by Giordano as a bonafied Top 2 D-Man made his a much easier deal to do as well. I can totally live wih a top 4 of Bouw/Gio/White/Regehr. I still love Pardy as a 5 and would be ecstatic if we can find a contender to take Sarich and his salary and bring back a much lesser priced, but more effective replacement freeing up even more cash.. while getting younger.

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Thank you for your input Mr Canucks troll, don't you have some CDC paste to go suck on? Everything you just wrote is a bunch of crap. Remember how you guys came from way back to take the division last year? Get ready to see how that feels!