Great trade.
Going back to Bingo's article, it would be difficult to create a better combination of low acquisition cost, low cap hit, and quality player than this. Obviously, how much it costs to re-sign him will factor into that, but the Flames get time to decide and evaluate (not just him but all of their goalies).
The other thing this trade dies is open the door for a UFA. If they go with Ortio as the backup, they're looking at a total cost of $3.3M or so in net. That would really help.
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