Derek Morris and McAmmond and Shantz for Drury and Yelle was fantastic.
Morris was a bum who had no desire, even at that age, to use his natural ability to take it to the elite level.
He was content being a 1b or 2a guy, jumping from team to team in the subsequent years, making a good salary, with each new team thinking he had unlocked potential given his raw talent and flashes of brilliance. He did, but had no desire to unlock it and content to float.
Drury was super skilled player at the time, and though the Flames couldn’t afford to re sign him, Sutter turned him into Reniprecht (hurt in the first shift of the preseason, I think Reinprecht didn’t disclose that injury fully) and Warrener the next offseason.
McAmmond they tried to reaquire later that season, and did at the trade deadline but was ineligble the rest of that season.
Warrener and Yelle were warriors, smart professionals and tough as nails (or sandpaper) and integral a year later to get to the playoffs and make a run as they did to the Cup.
It was a fleece at the time just before the start of that season and played out that way through the next few years as Morris was nowhere near the player he could’ve and should’ve been, and the Flames sold high on him.
Also, to a lesser degree, Sergi Krivokrasov for Cale Hulse. To get anything for Hulse was a fleecing, but getting a skilled winger, who had upside, if only for a few months, for a clueless player like Hulse was addition by subtraction.
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