I don't like trading with bad teams as a general rule. I understand that good players exist on bad teams, but over the years the Flames seem to love trading with teams like Arizona. Florida, Ottawa, NYI, and now possibly Carolina.
Perhaps it's irrational, but if Carolina had been successful for the last few years, these same players with the exact same stats would be much more appealing to me. Likely also wouldn't be available! But still more appealing. I guess that I use team success as a pseudo-marker of the 'intangibles' that we always talk about.
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