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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
My crappy cell phone would not let me quote your long post, but I would have done this instead in an ideal world.
1) Signed Alzner for 4.65 a year over 5 years (slightly more than Montreal signed him for)
2) Traded Brouwer and a 1st for Schenn (Brouwer would have to waive his NTC)
3) Signed Stone like we did.
That would have cost the Flames about 1.7 million more than we are currently spending.
And in a world where BT knows he is going to likely sign Stone (as I am assuming he did not do those two moves in isolation) I would not sign anyone and would have Kulak and Andersson as my 3rd pair but would get Schenn.
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The Stone move came well after we had Hamonic, and it probably drove the price down for Stone on his contract. I will concede your final point though.
I don't see Alzner as an upgrade on Hamonic, and he costs more. And with the defenders we have in the system, I certainly wouldn't have wanted him for 5 years blocking the way for a superior defenseman like Valimaki or Andersson.
As for your Brouwer trade...well, that's some pie in the sky type of trade proposal. First, you have to get Brouwer to waive after 1 season. Not sure that happens. Secondly, you include the same 1st round pick that we are worried about for Schenn who is having an insane breakout year in St. Louis. Thirdly, you are assuming Philly makes that trade when the deal that actually made was for a vastly superior NHLer in Lehtera, the 27th overall pick in that draft, and ANOTHER future 1st round pick! That's just not a realistic trade, sorry.