[Sylvanfan]

Edmonton ended up in a really odd situation due to Pronged. A cup finals team had three significant pieces leave in Pronged, Peca, and Samsonov. Than Smyth traded the next , deadline. But they messed up with Lupul, eventually squandering him into Pitkanen>Cole>O'Sullivan>Vandermeer. Gave up good picks to add Penner, spent a lot to land Souray, and paid Horcoff a big pile of money.

The Flames were late figuring it out. We will see if the learned anything from watching the Oilers stall out for 3 years until they screwed it up so bad they picked first 3 straight years.