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Originally Posted by Jason14h
What are you disagreeing with ? He was a UFA from LV. Everyone knew he was going there. They took him because no one else on our team had value , not to get some leg up on signing him . And they were correct that no one the Flames left unprotected would have helped them .There’s a reason we protected Lazar.
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He is disagreeing with this assertion:
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Originally Posted by Jason14h
...The rules for protection were too harsh, yet the Calgary Flames did not have any player LV wanted and instead they took a UFA.
Just shows how pathetic our talent really is
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For whatever reason some posters like to spin the expansion draft into some silly narrative about how poor a team the Flames are, and devoid of talent. This is simply not true.
In actual fact the Flames were very fortunate during the expansion draft that Engelland was a UFA, and that VGK was so eager to add him to their team so early. This had NOTHING to do with the Knights rejecting Flames unprotected players, but was actually much more about how important Engalland was perceived to be from the start. It was clearly a priority for them to include him from the start as a key to how they wanted to build the team in the first place.