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Originally Posted by nik-
Yes, if they did nothing, but why would they do that? Every contract is a possible UFA walk for nothing contract in the end, but how often does that happen? Why would you use that to assign benefits to this trade? It's not the situation the team was in and therefore isn't an accurate assignment of value to those players.
You're using a potential outcome as the current situation, it's not.
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Well if the Flames want to compete for a playoff spot the Ferland spot is required to be filled post deadline. So if you believe Ferland was a key piece for next season then he was going to leave for nothing at the end of it or be signed for 3.5mil. You could us Ferland as an asset to trade and try to upgrade on Ferland. Though that's a tough trade to make without adding other pieces. So how do you value Ferland. Deadline trade to a playoff team he's worth a second. But to do that you need to replace him this year.