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Originally Posted by PugnaciousIntern
I'd personally be very upset if Smid was traded prior to becoming a valuable hockey asset again. I hate when pro athletes are seriously injured and in the worst period of their career, unsure if they will ever play again but doing everything to make it back, and then their team gives up on them before they had the chance to prove it...
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These sorts of things are not worth getting upset about. For the most part, EVERY NHL team will regularly and consistently fail to realise the value for even most of their assets. So long as the team is not always leaving value on the table, I think that is likely the best one can hope for.
Ideally, the Flames will get full value back for trading assets Raymond, Smid, Stajan, Wideman, Bollig in the near future. But practically speaking, it is impossible to trade them all, and even in those trades that do occur, it is highly likely that some of these guys will help another team, and will in turn appear more valuable than what the Flames receive in return.
That's just the nature of the business: for the occasional home run and the several solid trades that a good GM enacts, there are bound to be a bunch in which "full value" is missed.