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Originally Posted by browna
I should also clarify...I also don't think the Flames should trade him before July 5th either. I think the return on him is better after the draft trades and UFA class sorts itself out. I liken this to the Regher situation a couple years back.
There are teams that are going to miss out on the guys they want; either thinking that have a trade in place with a team at the draft, only to have another team swoop in and over more, and same with UFA time...teams have targeted players that are going to be bought out or just normal UFA's, and then they miss out.
Those teams are then that much more desperate to add a goal scorer like Cammalleri post the first week or two of July...the asking price, and return, can go up.
However, Feaster wants to make an impact in the next 10 days, and some splashes, as he often seems to feel the need to do for whatever reason (job justification?) around draft time. For Regher, it was needing to be clearing his and Kotalik's salary off the books to take a run at Richards a week later.
Cammalleri is the biggest chip Feaster has both now, and post July 5th....I think Feaster has too much of an itchy trigger finger to wait for the better offers post July 5th, and instead get caught up in the frenzy at the draft.
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Issue with that is the risk you take on waiting it out.
Trades in today's NHL are extremely difficult to pull off compared to the pre-cap era. I think if you have a trade for Cammi that's a fit, you have to pull the trigger regardless of if it's before or after the draft.