Quote:
Originally Posted by Poe969
So we could get simmonds. Maybe McDonald gets his game back, he was given that contract for a reason, it would be great to get simmonds and a defender who could step in and contribute
|
Simmonds is great and all, but MacDoanld has a contract so bad they would have to pay to dump it. He is owed almost $26 million over the next 5 years and is a bottom pairing defenseman.
For the sake of argument let's say we would take MacDonald for free (personally I wouldn't touch that contract for even their late first). Would you really be willing to give up our #2 centre, our best defense prospect, a good forward prospect and a 2nd round pick for Simmonds? Then take on 25.75 million dollars on top of that?
Yeah, not a chance. That is a horrible deal for the Flames.