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Originally Posted by CGY12
People complain about Tanguay's lack of grit and soft play. We go out and trade him for a guy 6 years younger who may have less skill but is tougher, plays hard every shift, has shown he can score 20+ goals in the league playing on a bad Colorado team and people still complain? The way people talk around here you would think its easy to trade for a big tough skilled forward. I like the move, you get younger, tougher, bigger, all while slowly but surely changing the culture of the team.
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Ya, the other thing that some people have a hard time getting their head around is that player's trade values are not universally defined by which draft pick they would get. All over these boards, posters would contemplate whether Tanguay was worth a 3rd or 2nd or 4th. He's not worth any of those. What he is worth is what the market bears, and for an aging player on a bad contract, it very much needed to be a bodies in vs bodies out situation.
Lamenting the fact that Feaster didn't get a pick is fairly naive to the situation. Jones is a good player and the Flames are hoping for some rejuvenation/reclamation here. There is nothing wrong with that. At worst, it doesn't work and is a lateral move, because Tanguay sure as hell wasn't going to work. This is EXACTLY the type of move the Flames needed to make with Tanguay, and it is the best they could have done.