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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The 2nd round pick Burke got for Berra has nothing to do with Feaster. There is about a 2% chance Feaster would have waited out Colorado to get that high of a pick.
Flames got lucky that a team had an irrational crush on Berra. The return we got for Berra is so out of line what goalies even a step or two above him got in terms of a return in a trade.
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Regardless of any of this can you honestly say that the Flames are
currently in that much worse of a position than if Feaster had taken the Detroit offer for Bouw?
We wouldn't have gotten Emile Poirier, who is an excellent prospect (and a bigger body). The 2nd rounder for Berra should be a decent prospect, but we'll have to wait and see. Cundari? Meh.
Nyquist has had an awesome season, but he's not the sort of player we are desperately lacking going forward. Sub-6' left-handed wingers are sort of our bag, baby. Who is to say he would have had the same opportunity in Calgary to put up points as he did in Detroit? This season he would have come into camp with Hudler, Cammalleri, Glencross, Stempniak, Jones and probably Baertschi ahead of him on the depth chart for places in the top 6.
Coulda-shoulda-woulda all you want, but when all is said and done this decision hasn't turned out to be that big of a deal. I think it's actually worked out quite well for the fact that we landed Emile Poirier alone.