10-30-2014, 02:33 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Willis: Oilers fleeced Flames in Smid trade
http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/201...ladislav-smid/
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It wasn’t a popular trade when it was made. Superficially, Ladislav Smid was a top-four defenceman who injected some necessary size, toughness and defensive ability on the back end. The players coming back were marginal prospects with some positive points (Roman Horak’s playing nicely in the KHL these days, Laurent Brossoit has shown flashes in the ECHL) but nothing worth moving a quality player from a position of strength.
That’s how I saw it at the time. I was wrong, not because the prospects were anything special, but because Smid really wasn’t.
Smid started showing that immediately upon his arrival with the Flames. It’s incredible to look at how his partners fared with and without him in 2013-14:
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Last edited by sureLoss; 10-30-2014 at 02:39 PM.
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