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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The ROR debacle wasn't a debacle because of the technicality. It was a debacle because the team was trading a top end pick in a very deep draft for a relatively unproven and incredibly expensive center to try to hoist them into the playoffs. Again, a strategy that has repeatedly failed over the past 4 years.
That move was just damning. No competent management team makes a move like that.
The technicality and that fallout was just icing on the cake.
We would have been watching us continue to flail while Colorado enjoyed Monahan or Lindholm on their roster for 7+ years.
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I'm amused how we have gone and assessed the quality of the upcoming draft, well before having seen any of these players actually play in the NHL. It is probably better to wait a few years, and see how a class integrates itself into the NHL, before describing a draft year as 'very deep'.
The Ryan O'Reilly movement was interesting. I am surprised Colorado matched, but I guess they had no desire of watching their center go to the Flames. It might be better to view the entire ROR event as a game of poker, and Calgary called Colorado's hand. In the end, Colorado ended up paying way more then they wanted. And, if O'Reilly is a "relatively unproven and incredibly expensive center", I wonder what Colorado will have to pay to keep Duchene and Landeskog under contract.
As far as assessing the Flames management goes... who knows. The Flames aren't a winning team, but I'm in no position to assess Ken King because I don't even know what his job entails. The Calgary Hitmen are still battling; does that mean Ken King is doing good job? Probably not.