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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
In all fairness, many people on CP make the same garbage proposals going the other way. Trade a bunch of our trash for a core piece of another team coming back our way. All one has to do is look through the Trade Speculation and Rumours thread to see plenty of examples.
Every fan base does the same thing, ours is no different.
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I think the reason for this is that many fans are very surprised at the acquisition cost of a lot of good players. The Flames just pulled off a trade for Travis Hamonic without losing a single player from their roster. Who saw that happening?
Of course, what fans tend to do poorly is to accurately gauge how a NHL GM views his own team and players. In the present case, the assumption for past trade rumours involving Dougie Hamilton have largely stemmed from the belief that he is either 1) not highly valued by coaches and management or 2) thought to be a problem in the dressing room. For the most part, this is why players are traded: because there has come to a point the belief that the team will be better without him, or can no longer accommodate the player and thus must recoup some value in return.
The problem with the present rumour is that Pension Plan Puppets correctly recognizes that Hamilton is one of the Flames most valuable players. But where they fail is in the belief that the Flames would entertain trading one of their most valuable players, which in itself is a silly thought. The reason it is silly is because the cost would be too prohibitive, but that is something that seems lost on the trade generator.