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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Ramage finished with 12 points in 20 PO games, second to Macinnis for defencemen. His PPG was pretty much what Suter's was before he got hurt. I think he filled in quite admirably. But he was gone the next year.
Sometimes I think that, at the time of that trade, they didn't have 100% confidence in Vernon and Walmsley was a much bigger factor in the trade than people now think.
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They had confidence in Vernon, but not much in Dadswell, hence the trade for a backup. The sad part is they had given away an excellent backup in Rejean Lemelin at the start of the '87-88 season.
I agree that Ramage was important in the '89 Cup run, but the trade was made to win in '88, and for that year the trade was a disaster: Ramage wasn't a great help in '88, Wamsley was injured and a non-factor; so in addition to losing Hull's potential scoring power, the Flames also lost their best checking forward in the trade, and got swept by the Oilers.