My only concern with trading for Boyle right now is the expansion draft. Can we trade for him and sign him after the expansion draft and avoid the NHL coming down on us for colluding with the player to avoid the expansion rules?
For some of the guys at this deadline, I think it is better for the Flames to simply get lesser depth players and go hard after some free agents in the summer. The cost to obtain some of the players at the deadline, only to lose him for nothing to expansion, lose him to free agency because you didn't want to lose an already existing player you didn't want to lose, or simply losing that existing player.
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