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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
...Saying the Flames needed a defenseman and saying they had to trade two 2nds and a first for Travis Hamonic are two entirely different things...
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The deal for Travis Hamonic was not just Travis Hamonic. It was 27-year-old Travis Hamonic with three years remaining on a deal that pays him under $4.0 m per season. There have been a few defensemen traded over the past couple of seasons. How many of them were in Hamonic's age-range, of Hamonic's calibre, making Hamonic's money and for the same term?
Hamonic was expensive because of all of these factors. Again, the onus is upon you to show where better deals for better players were there to be had.