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Originally Posted by Royle9
It's ironic that many of you tout Stone as a top 15 "generational" talent and then have him signing with the Flames for 8M.
You cant have both, he's going to get PAID because he's GOOD.
You're not going to trade a late 1st, Dube and 1 other asset for Mark Stone. If you were Ottawa would you take that deal? Take off the rose colored glasses guys, I think we're over valuing some of our assets here.
There's way more teams that can offer better than what the Flames can. It would be more like:
1st
Dube
Valamaki
B-prospect or 2nd/3rd
and I'm honestly not even sure that get's it done.
The chances of Mark Stone becoming a flame are almost 0% because between the cost to trade and the cost to sign him just dont work. You can get upset at that all you want and try and blame that on me being "ignorant" to it but that's simply not the case. The dollars dont add up.
You're not trading away Frolik/Brodie in the off-season for nothing but assets and no contracts back, Stones easily going to get 9M on the open market based on how good we all say he is.
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Exactly.
"Top 15 guy in the league but we will trade "stuff" for him and sign him to 8-16 million less than he can get elsewhere because....well...because"
Reality has left the building.
Now I will say that with Dorian on the other end of this deal, it could look bizarre when its all said and done, but there are dozens of better packages out there by teams that actually
need a guy like Stone. In Calgary he would be a luxury at best.
Personally i hope he stays in Ottawa because that franchise is in a world of trouble and could use some stabilization. It's unlikely he does so the next best hope is he doesn't end up in the West. Philly seems like a good destination for him or Colombus since the Russian divas have forced their way out.