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Originally Posted by fleury
I'm not too happy about this deal. The way I look at it, with the 1st rounder is there a chance it'll end up being a player at least equal to Bouwmeester? Doubt it. I'm happy that if the Blues don't make the playoffs it slides to next year, but again, Flames management got relatively fleeced. Even if they took back $1M, I'd have thought they'd get a blue chip prospect back. Enough with the crappy farm players.
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That's the wrong way to look at it IMO. Sure we won't get anyone of Bouwmeester quality, but truthfully, the Flames were a couple of players (maybe 2 or 3) away from making the playoffs. More players yet of making even the second round. This would cost more than the Flames prospects/picks that we could even hope to be able to afford to give up. The clock is ticking, and if we're back in the playoffs in 3-4 years, Bouwmeester is 32-33 years old. Probably still at similar money, and playing MAYBE as good as he has this year. Maybe worse.
When you assess these things you have to factor in that players age, and that sometimes a team IS years away from playoffs, as much as it sucks. If we didn't get SOMETHING for Iginla, we could have potentially got nothing at all instead. If we're 2-3 years away, and Iginla stayed, he's not the player in 3 years he is even today, and certainly far from his prime.