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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Not trying to beat a dead horse, but this deal also underlines how bad the Bouwmeester to Blues trade was.
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The flames were starting from less than scratch in their 'rebuild'. It's a huge factor in how things have stalled out.
Most teams that start a rebuild finally acquiesce and actually get decent return for their assets to start things off.
For example, The Rangers, who are now set to draft 3 times in the 1st, twice in the second and twice in the third round.
They have a 2nd in 2019 that becomes a 2019 first if tampa wins the cup either this year or next.
That is ALREADY better than the two drafts Calgary made after dealing Bouwmeester and Iginla.
Calgary needs to be even more shrewd with acquiring picks than a team like tampa or new york.
But they aren't, and they haven't been, and they've sucked as a result.
And, yes, they will continue to suck as a result until they change their, at this point, ludicrous strategy of doing everything they can just to make the playoffs.
By my count, in the last calendar year, the Flames have moved out:
2017 2nd
2018 3rd (That becomes a 2nd if the flames make the playoffs this year)
2018 1st
2018 2nd
2019 2nd
2019th 6th
2018th 7th (It looks like for Shore)
They have received:
2019 4th (conditional on year)
Look at St.Louis today. They moved this years 1st round pick last year at the draft for Brayden Schenn. Right now, the Blues are 1 point back of Calgary (with 2 more wins and a better goal differential). The Blues are 3-6-1 in their last 10, flames 5-4-1.
The blues got a 1st rounder back. It'll likely end up a later pick, but unlike the Flames, they have all of their own picks this year other than that 1st, and all of their own picks in the first 3 rounds next year. The Blues will likely have made at least 2 picks at the draft this year before Calgary goes up to the podium.
According to Strickland I believe, this deal was not in the cards for St.Louis until just the last two weeks. They looked at where they were at with their roster and decided to capitalize on deadline frenzy.
The flames shipped out a 7th rounder to shore up the bottom half of the roster in order to prevent 2nd and 3rd line AHLers from getting into the lineup because of an injury to Ferland.