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Originally Posted by bigrangy
Lots of Oilers fans in here thinking the Flames won the trade because they got the guys who were higher picks
Draft position does not matter this far down the line.
I'd be lying if I said I watched many Carolina games last year but by all accounts, today's Lindholm is marginally better than today's Ferland at best.
Hamilton is miles better than Hanifin is today.
Yes the Flames got the better contracts, but the hockey ability of the team has been lessened as a result of this trade.
Maybe Hamilton is a locker room cancer and the team improves from his subtraction but the value should have still been better.
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I think that this whole post is wrong.
Ferland wishes that he had the toolkit that Lindholm has. Ferland isn't as good without the puck, he doesn't have the same level of puck control. Ferlands skills are his fists and his shot. When he was on his game Ferland was good, when he was off his game he was invisible. He can't skate as well as Lindholm or stick handle in traffic or pass as well as Lindholm. As well, Lindholm is a younger.
I know that people are going to miss Ferland I am too, but suddenly the guy that most people weren't happy with at the end of last year is now a player capable of climbing Mount Olympus and hockeying the gods.
With Lindholm we got a potential core player, something that Ferland was never going to be. With Lindholm we got a true top 6 capable player with decent defensive awareness. That wasn't Ferland.
Noah Hanifin is 21 years old, He's a tremendous skater and stick handler with a good outlet pass. I doubt he'll ever be quite as good as Hamilton is offensively, I don't think he's got that vision, but at the same time Hamilton in his 21 year old season playing with Chara scored 10 goals the same as Hanifin did in his 21 year old season. Dougie had 32 assists to Hanifin 22 assists, but look at that Boston team. And of course Hamilton is miles better today, though I think that's an exaggeration, he's had nearly 4 more years of development.
I think you hate the deal and that's fine, its a free country, but you're trying to sell it as bad, and you're selling it so hard that you're making fantastical claims like Lindholm is marginally better.
Is this a great trade? Nope, but its a hockey trade in a sense that makes sense for the Flames. And if Treliving's interview is to be interpreted, this was about getting an element out of the dressing room and kicking the dressing rooms culture in the a$$.
As for Fox, he didn't want to play here so frack him, and College Prospects don't have that amazing value, especially ones that are heading back to school and are suspect as far as signing.