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Originally Posted by Thor
Please no toxic players, we saw what the Phaneuf era was like for our locker room, now we have this exciting young group with great vets who get a long like a family. It could take just one idiot like Kane to ruin that.
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I understand why people don't want Phaneuf now...but the "Phaneuf era" with the Flames? You mean the era where the Flames always made the playoffs and were in contention to win the division and were picked as a dark horse to make the finals?
Phaneuf may have had some issues with other guys in the Flames locker room but he was never replaced, certainly not by Bouwmeester, and the Flames have not been to the playoffs since.
The Phaneuf trade is a very good example of why you don't let things get to this point because when you make a trade in circumstances like that, you are almost certain to get the worst of it.