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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Stone doesn't take much heat cause he's on our 3rd pairing...but a -5 night is pretty hard to do. Another 2 years left on the contract after this season, at $3.5M, for limited minutes and very limited offence. Many of us opposed that deal when it was signed, wishing that money was spent on a forward instead. Does anyone think there would have been a significant downgrade if we were playing Andersson or any other $1M fringe NHLer in his spot, and used that money on scoring?
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Stone cost us no assets to re-sign, Hamonic cost us potentially a lottery pick. We'd be in exactly the same place with Stone + Anderson + 1st + 2x 2nds. But I guess Treliving just had to have a rapidly declining Hamonic.
Past couple games have been Stone's worst as a Flame. But I'm still waiting for Hamonic to have a better than average performance.
Guess I'm in the minority who isn't all that impressed with our pizza heir GM.