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Originally Posted by Royle9
The main narrative here is that something is wrong in Dougie land w/ Calgary based on ALL the smoke in the media. We've heard rumblings of this ever since his brother was let go and even into the previous year.
Again, we all know how well Dougie played this year and nobody is taking that away from him. However given the smoke I think some of you may need to get your life vests out and realize your Hamilton boat may be sinking.
It's starting to sound like there's a very good chance he wont be on the Flames next season, so rather then get upset at posters who are trying to come up with some idea's for what they'd like to see Calgary get back given a Hamilton trade, think about it yourself and start preparing for a post Dougie Flames roster. The constant bickering of HOW good Hamilton is is running dry, we've heard it 1000x times now and have seen it for ourselves. He's a great top 2 D man on the Flames, but it sounds like there's underlying issues here that the Flames see as a problem and so his name is out there as available.
Deep breaths everyone, trading Hamilton for other assets wont single handily make or break the Flames season, some of you seem to act as if Dougie's the glue to the entire roster and sadly it couldn't be further from the truth.
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Dougie gets thrown in a lot as he's a very valuable piece to 31 teams in the NHL, and it's PLAUSIBLE that Treliving could deal from a position of strength. It's pretty exciting to talk about big names moving around, but I'd be surprised to see Perry or Krug moved as well.
But I think any trade involving Hamilton has to be an overpayment as there's no way Treliving is going to lose a trade with a stud defenceman playing how he hoped he'd be playing when he picked him up. Reports like to add his name as speculation, but I would be surprised if Treliving is too interested in any calls that involve Dougie.
What it does it at least starts the negotiation, which is great. If player 'x' is available and they want defencemen for him, that's a great call coming into his office.