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Raanta is eerily similar to what Talbot was prior to his being traded.

Talbot went for a 2nd and a 3rd plus a swap of 7th rounders that saw the Rags move up in that round several spots. I read somewhere that the Rags had a 1st on the table for him though at some point but dropped the ball somehow.

I imagine that 1st was either 15th OA in 2015 from Calgary before the Hamilton trade or 16th OA in 2015 from the Oilers before they made the (lol) Griffin Reinhart trade.


Treliving and the Flames pro scouts were after Jones before he proved himself, they were after Talbot before he proved himself, and they were after Matt Murray before he proved himself. If they believe Raanta is on that type of level as well then who am I to disagree?

I've seen on-line proposals where the Flames give up 16th overall plus a prospect (Rittich?) for 21st overall and Raanta and that doesn't seem like too bad of an idea.