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Originally Posted by kyuss275
I might not be an NHL scout, but i have seen enough hockey in my time to see that Hanowski has major work to do in his skating to make the NHL.
As for your other post, some of us saw that Bartowski was ready for a cup of coffee with an NHL team, and thought he was a much better throw in player, "asset value wise" over the 2 players we got from Pitt. Add in the Russian and it was a no brainer on which trade was better.
The only reason the 2 players from the Pitt deal got praise was that the trade came out of left field and they were already members of the flames. The usual "koolaid" drinkers started praising them because they were flames. The Boston deal that fell through took hours, so CP had time to bash the players from that deal because they were not flames yet. Those CP had this image of getting top prospect after top prospect , plus 1st's for Iggy. THey were not realistic.
I shake my head at posters that think the 2 deals are similar.
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Agree with what you are saying. I shake my head at posters who judge players on a couple of games in the NHL and claim they will never be a player in the AHL let alone the bigs. Give the guy a chance to adjust before proclaiming g him a lost cause. Hanowski needs some work on his skating but he was no where near as bad as some are suggesting.
You're right that the two deals weren't the same. Boston's was better a d Iginla kind of screwed us over by not committing to go there. That is done. Get over it and accept that we got probable 3rd line players for the future. They meet a need for the team and that should keep us happy.