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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Because he's Gio, and he could possibly make some trades that improve the team by getting draft protected assets. I kinda doubt that anyone will be "begging" Seattle to take Gio. If they leave him unprotected it will be reluctantly. It wouldn't be unprecedented. The Bruins protected Chara who was older.
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The Bruins protected Chara, Krug & Miller on D. Their exposed list was Linus Arnesson, Chris Casto, Tommy Cross, Alex Grant, John-Michael Liles, McQuaid, Colin Miller and Joe Morrow.
The Flames on the other hand would be chosing to exposing the third best of Hanafin, Valamaki, Anderson, or Kyllington who should all be better then they are today based on normal age curves, while Gio is already at an age you should expect him to start dropping off massively.
I suspect Chara being protected was somewhat influenced by the alternatives. I also wouldn't expect Seattle to take Ryan (35yr old free agent) over our other options because Vegas took a 35 year old free agent from us last time.