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Originally Posted by Dajazz
If someone told CP that BT would trade for a middle six forward and a defenseman a week ago - would you say that sounds logical? Especially if it's Hamilton?
No, you send Hamilton and whatever is needed to get a top line forward.
Lindholm is only two years younger than Ferland who might cost you 4-5 million on his next contract. Lindholm is probably coming in at 5+.
That's why I hate the trade. The Calgary Flames are not a better team after the trade. We might be, so again, we traded on of our most valuable pieces for two good players with potential.
So now we are left with pretty much 0 pieces to trade for scoring help. Brodie is needed, Gio is Gio, Hamonic well... yea so hey who wants some D prospects and a 1st? Hold on, we didn't have one.
I love to have Hanifin & Lindholm on the team. Great players. But we didn't need Hanifin, we didn't need to replace Ferland with Lindholm. We needed someone who could step in and score 30 goals.
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Well if you trade Hamilton for a winger you do severely weaken the defense until Valimaki or Andersson is ready to play top 4. Kind of doubtful either of them is ready for that immediately. I know some people would have preferred that but you know Treliving thinks depth on defense is overall more important than wing depth. Which makes some sense as defensemen are more valuable than wingers. I’m not sure our management was ever going to trade Hamilton for a winger. We got two great young players who play the most important positions in the game (C and D). We got a young top two line forward who has a right shot, that was a huge need. We got rid of a guy whose commitment in his own zone was lacking.
Did people really wanna trade Hamilton for a winger and then roll with a top 4 of Gio, Brodie, Hamonic and Stone? Neither Hamonic nor Stone really looks good playing their off side. That looks a bit weak to me. It solving one problem but then opening up another. You’d have to roll with Gio-Hamonic, Brodie-Stone and we’d lose a lot of offense and puck moving ability. Thinking about it more I think Hamilton is too big of a loss defensively at the moment unless you got a top 4 dman back.
Probably best for us to wait a week and see what happens in early July before we proclaim that Treliving has failed to address depth scoring.