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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Thinking about this some more today.
Jones cost SJ a first round pick, prospect and a 3 year deal at $3 million per.
Talbot costs Oilers 3 picks and ultimately a 3 year contract at $4 million per.
Andersen and Reimer were UFA's as I recall, signed for slightly longer term.
Elliott and then Smith have likely cost the Flames 2 seconds and a prospect, and 3 years total in contract.
Obviously we have yet to see how Smith will play for us, but given options that were out there a year ago, Treliving has given up quite a few assets and really has no more flexibility compared to some other options. This flexibility thing is a bit of a red herring if you're not able to get good goalie play.
Smith really needs to work out or else this is a rather dramatic failure.
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when teams dont have a number 1 goalie.. they tend to go fishing for it.. elliott wasn't traded for in hopes hed be a stop gap.. id imagine treliving wants two eyars out of smith.. but will take more if he can get it.. ramo was in the same boat as any goalie too.. a hopefuly number 1..
edmonton spent a 2nd and third on talbot.. but they also spend 15 million of khabibulin, a first on devan dubnyk, a 3rd round pick on ben schrivens... and a 4th and 5th on viktor fasth..
none of those moves matter anymore since they finally got a low cost upgrade that worked.. thats happened to lots of teams.. hopefully smith works out for cgy and it gives time for our guys to develop