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Originally Posted by AcGold
As long as we don't make any moves that cripple us we'll be fine. The Camalleri situation is a non-issue, the Bouwmeester, Iginla, Regehr and Phaneuf trades all hurt us badly. As soon as those stopped happening we started moving in the right direction. Trading Giordano for a bunch of plugs would piss me off, a late pick which we would have ideally gotten for Camalleri is not the difference between a cup or not.
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agreed here
Despite who was at the helm, I think the reputation of the Flames was that we we would be willing to give up top line players for marginal players/prospects (Iginla, Bouw, Phaneuf, Regehr) and that is the imagine that Brian Burke was hoping to change. Rightly or wrongly. I know for me, I was cringing to find out what we got for Bouwmeester after seeing how the Iginla, Regehr and Phaneuf trades went.... lo and behold, here we were holding the bag on 2 mediocre picks and a conditional late 1st rounder.