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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Mark Stone is not coming to Calgary. The cost is the very definition of prohibitive.
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If Ottawa isnt going to sign him what makes the cost prohibitive? Realistically SJ, Vegas, and Boston are the likely other suitors. Maybe Nashville?
We definitely cant let any of the west teams land him for cheap. So we at least have to be at the table to push up the price a bit and hurt them down the line. Ideally they wont acquire him though as that would be pretty objectively bad for our cup aspirations.
I would do it, even for a rental 30 games, at a max cost of dube+1st. That seems expensive but in essence we are not only bidding to get him here but bidding to ensure our greatest competitors dont get dramatically better in time for the playoffs.