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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
If the pick ends up in the top 3 it because of a lottery ball.
That would be an idiotic reason to fire someone. If the ball spits out 12 he keeps his job but if it is 3 he gets fired?
Sorry that's dumb.
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Sorry I completely disagree. He traded a 1st rounder and 2 2nds for a guy that was coming off a horrible year and was only expected to be the number 4 D. The Flames were a team that used a huge streak to sneak into a wildcard spot. 3 of the 4 previous years they drafted top 10 outside of one year when they clearly were an anomaly.
Look at it from that slant it doesn’t make a lot of sense to trade that many assets when the team has not really proven they are out of the rebuild. He could have minimized the risk by protect Big the pick. If that wasn’t an option he could have moved on to someone else or perhaps targeted the scoring winger we needed.
In my opinion he took a pretty big risk and if the result is worst case scenario I do think that should be given different consideration. Surely the optics change.