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Originally Posted by midniteowl
Hmmm....I agree with most of this post, but calling Dube a fringe NHLer is a little early. He is a prospect who could turns out to fringe or he could turns out to be a star. I agree, Panarin is a star right now, however, we are essentially giving up for a rental. We might not be able to sign him, so the poster wasn't wrong to say that unless we win the cup, it's a lot to give up for.
Looking back in history, we gave up Hull who turns to be pretty damn good. Betcha at the time, people wouldn't know if he'll turn out good or not. But we won the cup so everything was ok.
Oh another player management thought was "fringe" NHLer and cut loose who went to TB and turned out pretty damn good as well.
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We knew HULL was gonna be good. I lived through the HULL trade he was my favorite player on the Flames at that time. Everyone loved Nieuwendyk and a few of us loved Hull. Brett Hull in his rookie season with Calgary when traded had 26 goals in 52 games. A 40 goal pace in his rookie season. Now we didn't know Hull was gonna be a 70+ & 80+ goal scorer, Hart Trophy etc but we knew he was very capable of being a 40/50 goal scorer and 80/90 point guy in his prime.
I don't know if "everything was ok" after we traded Hull though. We didn't win the Stanley Cup the year we traded Hull. It was the year after that. Wamsley was a back up and didn't play a role in the playoffs of us winning the Cup. Ramage spent 2 years I believe with us and was a good playoff performer the Cup year but he could have been had for less or someone else comparable. We owned St Louis on many trades for a few years of the 80s (Gilmour, Joey Mullen) until that Hull trade and he became one of the best Hockey players to ever live. Don't kid yourself though, we knew Hull would be good when we traded him.