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Originally Posted by Igottago
Because by trading an asset that doesn't fit in for whatever reason, you are also giving a rival that needs help with young prospects, a chance at filling their cupboards. If the Canucks and Flames are battling for a playoff spots in the upcoming seasons and Sven becomes the type of player he was drafted to be, he could very well be biting us in the ass.
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That sounds to me more like Flames fans wanting to watch their arch rival team get burned then actually looking at the big picture and seeing we got a 2nd round pick for an AHL player who wasn't in the teams plans going forward. Whenever you trade any player to any other team, technically you are helping them stock their cupboards anyways. That's what trades do. Again as I said in my post, if someone can give me a solid example of a Flames player being traded to a rival and having it bite us in the ass hard, I'm all ears. Otherwise it's just fans upset that a rival got one of our players.
A couple weeks ago would you have seen Sven as that player who would be helping us in a playoff push a couple seasons down the road? A couple days ago he was a long shot to make the team. He was being passed by other guys on our depth chart. Now suddenly because he's with Vancouver he's a threat to us who will ''come back to bite us in the ass''? Sorry but I'm not buying it. If anything, a trade like this just goes to show how good our prospect depth is that we can even consider making a trade like this.