We should make a list of trades that happened where the acquiring team had personnel (former coach/GM/scout) familiar with the acquired player, and whether or not it worked out for them.
Flames related...
- CGY (Sutter) acquires Kiprusoff from SJ for a 2nd round pick
- VAN (Weisbrod) acquires Baertschi from CGY for a 2nd round pick
- VAN (Weisbrod) acquires Granlund from CGY for Shinkaruk
- CGY (Gulutzan) acquires Chaisson from OTT for Sieloff
- CGY (Treliving, Maloney) acquires Stone from ARZ for a 3rd round pick
- CGY (Cameron) acquires Lazar from OTT for a 2nd round pick
Remains to be seen how the Lazar trade works out, but as for the rest, the team acquiring a player that they had the inside track on seemed to get solid value in each trade (obviously great value in the Kiprusoff trade).
Somewhat Flames related... will be interesting to see how it pans out for LA in trading for Iginla. You'd have to think it was Sutter that pushed for that, given that no other teams were interested.
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