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Originally Posted by dino7c
Getting Smith was a good move...It was also after the expansion draft. Pens obviously had a massive ask for MAF and ended up getting nothing.
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They did get to keep all their skaters in the expansion draft. They also got to have Fleury in goal for the early rounds of the playoffs last year (in fact, IIRC, Fleury won 9 of the 16 games in their Cup run last season).
If the Flames had acquired Fleury at the deadline last year, the Pens would have had either Elliott or Johnson between the pipes when Murray got hurt and we wouldn't have been talking about a repeat.
If the Pens had traded Fleury before the expansion draft, they would have lost someone else to Vegas. That naturally make the acquisition cost need to be something better than what they'd lose.