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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Re: Elliott... I got roasted when we acquired him by saying he was a little overrated if you look at his on-ice stats. When you look at his acquisition cost (a 2nd rounder) and his salary ($2.5 million), he is pretty much playing to that value however.
If you want a sure thing, you are going to be paying a lot for it. Something the Flames didn't do, so it should be no surprise that we are where we are right now.
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Elliott was, by many metrics, a top 5 goalie last year with a long tenure of work, despite not being paid like one.
Judging on-ice performance based off of salary and trade value is ridiculous enough as it is, doing it for a goalie even more so. And he also requested a trade, which skewed his trade value, particularly for a goalie market that favored the buyer like it did last summer.