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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
Phaneuf's perceived value at the time should have landed us more, agreed.
However, if he wasn't traded that contact would have become worse and worse.
I still stand by the above Stajan goal. It won us a playoff series. I still think at the end of the day that would have beat riding out Dion's contact.
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Maybe your idea of what his perceived value was, is incorrect. If they could have got more, they would have got more.
I bet everyone talks and everyone knew what a bedwetter phaneuf was. I thought I remember reading shortly after that trade that most teams didn't even want to discuss the idea of a trade in the first place and his value was tanking.
Phaneuf deal aside, After thinking back at all the bad trades the flames have been apart of, to me it feels pretty clear that when you look at all the net good trades it's a much smaller list isn't it? That says we stink at GMing. It never really dawned on my how awful we have been in the trade dept until now.