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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I think it’s intersting to speculate how Fox was valued in this deal.
Assume the deal starts as Ferland and Hamilton for Hanifin and Lindholm. That was not enough for Carolina. If Flames didn’t have rights to Fox, what would have been comparable?
It’s impossible to know without inside knowledge, but it seems pretty clear Flames didn’t get Valimaki type value for him since he’s not signed. Would love to know what other options were on the table.
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My guess is that Valimaki was off the table altogether, but that negotiations centred on Fox and the two AHL defensemen as the sticking point. At this point the debate is whether to believe that one of Kylington or Andersson was not enough for Carolina to strike a deal, or whether it was too much for the Flames to finalize.