Hull was considered an offensive talent, but lazy and poor defensively.
Now one thought he’d become the HOF he became.
Rob Ramage was a very good d-man at the time.
I don’t recall any push back on the trade at all from fans or the media.
Hey, if you make enough trades, you’ll eventually trade away some stars. Just the law of averages.
yeah obviously the degree of Hull's offensive explosion was not predicted but he was already , in his rookie season with the flames on a 40-40 pace, so he could score
Flames had McDonald (old), Mullen (sort of old but Flames gave up on too soon), Loob (bailed without notice) and Makarov (not here yet) in the system at the time (hmm I wonder if any team post expansion had so much HOF caliber talent in the system at one position at the same time?) all at RW (Fleury at that time was mostly a C as I recall). so Hull felt expendable, but a few years later, clearly not.
also Ramage for sure was a good D. In fact (and I found an old sporting news article to this effect a few years ago), the feeling around the league at the time was the Flames gave up too little for Ramage and Wamsley . Sather actually lodged an official protest with the league, claiming he would have offered more . the sporting news article actually implied that there was a side deal in place for the Flames to send a second young player (rumored to be Gary Roberts) to the Blues at the completion of the 88 season to even it out
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