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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The team was poorly coached. Really would you expect a team that's going to jump through walls to win for an nice guy coach that was in over his head? To me it seems like a lot of fans including yourself wanted to pin the "okay with losing" tag on guys like Gaudreau, Hamilton, Monahan, etc because of an uninformed Francis article. The coach got fired and the new coach wanted to bring a few players from his old team that he thought could help the Flames and the truth is that guys like Brodie and Hamonic were not going to get that deal done. If for whatever reason the Hurricanes decide they want to keep those players I don't think Hamilton was burning a hole in Treliving's pocket that he had to move him. It's simply a matter of teams having to give up a lot to get a lot.
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This is contrary to what Peters said in his interview. He stated directly that he had limited involvement in this trade, but that (obviously) he did give his opinions of the players when asked. As I recall, he stated the scouts were more involved than he was.