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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Because 48 hours ago a lot of people believed that Ferland and Hamilton should have been enough to get the assets acquired. So doesn’t feel like Fox returned much value.
Treliving himself talked about how if Ferland puts up another season like the last one he is going to to earn himself a big salary. Doesn’t that mean he is a valuable player? And Hamilton seems to be universally regarded as the best player in the deal.
So if Fox was so central to the deal, maybe a lesser forward could have been included in lieu of Ferland. Or if Ferland was key, how about a lesser prospect?
I believe as it turns out, Fox held much less value to the Flames than we believed. That’s too bad.
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Pretty sure fox wasn’t central to the deal but if you listen to Tre talk about the trade he makes it clear that fox wasn’t goin to sign here so he had to trade him. I’d rather move dougie and get two good young players back than potentially lose ferland next summer as a ufa, and have fox sign elsewhere. Realistically it’s a very fair trade both teams taking on risk but Calgary gets controllable assets so I think we get the advantage.