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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Kadri is a very nice secondary player but he certainly isn't someone your mortgage a lot to acquire. He just isn't the personality you want at the core of your team.
Big pass.
Again, as Cliff and others have said, you have to DRAFT your core. There's still a lot of work to do on that front before we start offering up prospects for trades to fill in the roster.
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Although I agree with you on both counts (Kadri isn't elite, you draft your core) that doesn't mean you don't take advantage of a player like this becoming available. Burke knows Kadri. If he has a bad attitude like some are convinced of than he won't acquire him. But I could build a Stanley Cup team filled with nothing but these players with supposedly bad attitudes (as reported by a bunch of fans that have never met them). If Burke isn't concerned about the attitude than you consider it. Chances are Baertschi is years away from hitting his potential and chances are his potential is simil r or lower to Kadri's. Kadri is further along and plays a key position.
This team looks a LOT better with Kadri/Monahan than it does with Baertschi/Monahan. We are deep at LW. Trading one prospect doesn't exclude drafting and developing our own prospects. The problem is I doubt that we have what Toronto is looking for. And there is a finite price I am willing to pay even if we have it. So I doubt we see Kadri in a Flames uniform.