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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Both teams lose this deal. The Sabers and Jets were both trading what were perceived to be impact high value pieces, and due to the underwhelming performances of all those involved - no one really got impact pieces back.
Bogoisan and Myers are basically a wash.
And everything else is just a bunch of stuff moving in either direction.
It is very similar to the Flames and the Phaneuf deal. It was a bad trade because of the return they likely could have got elsewhere, not because Phaneuf went on to be a great player.
The fact is that the stuff the Jets got back - haven't really turned into much.
So not a fleecing - just a team that really hasn't worked out for either team as they would have hoped.
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Myers is a +15 playing in 99 games on a team that has been pretty much lock step with the Flames. He plays against the Ovechkin's in the league.
He plays about a minute a game less than Giorando.... who playing against the same calibre opposition on the same sort of +/- team.
Myers is not overly physical (only .7 hits/game) but does not have to be on the Jets... Byfuglien, Trouba, Stuart, Chairot all having more hits/gm than Engelland.
His 26 pts looks paltry compared to the 40+ points put up by the Flames top-3 last year but will seem a lot better when the Flames defense is asked to actually play defense this year.
I can not see any relationship to the Phanuef deal.. where Flames dumped salary because they spent too much getting Bouwmesster and were playing several AHL calibre players at forward. Phanuef was never close to being in the Kane category of messed up.
Had the Flames been able to trade Phanuef for a Meyers level of player we would not be coming out of a stretch of 7 years with 1 playoff appearance.