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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
If Bouw would have signed here for that amount, his whipping boy persona would have gone down ten-fold. Great deal for the Blues, especially considering that Pietrangelo will be his defensive partner. I don't know who his partners in FLA were, but this will by far be the best partner he will have had. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see them become the top pairing in the league at some point.
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I doubt it would have. JBO needs a certain type of player to play with on the top line, and the Flames did or do not have that. Always thought JBO needed a Webber or Suter to really appreciate him. He now gets a player to play with along those lines.
I remeber talk of the Islanders being interested in him. A combo of Streit and JBO would have been awful.