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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Low key that Weimer trade might actually be worse for the Flames franchise overall than the Gilmour trade.
Gilmour trade sucked but the team was probably going that direction with the Canadian $$$ and no salary cap anyways.
Has another other team ever traded away the pick that became the player the wins the Conn Smythe trophy against you when you meet in the Stanley Cup finals.
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It's funny when old threads are bumped and posts from years ago are responded to.
I recently said something like this in the Lazar trade thread but the Flames didn't trade Weimer for Richards, they traded him for a third round pick which had a 28% chance of being an NHLer.
If you wan't to criticise the Flames, it's not the trade that was the problem, it was their drafting. Rico Fata in the first round and Blair Betts in the 2nd? They could have had Simon Gagne and Brad Richards instead!
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Originally Posted by FlameZilla
Don't worry, even if we had that draft pick we wouldn't have picked Brad Richards. We would have picked Bill Bumface from Regina, Saskatchewan. Played in the Saskatchewan high school league & didn't show that much promise offensively, but he was pretty big (6'4") and liked to throw his body around.
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Also this. If the horrible drafting Flames of 1998 kept the pick it would have been wasted. In fact the Flames would have been better off getting assets for their 1st and 2nd rounders that season as well.