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Originally Posted by nik-
Dunno, trying to find his tweet from 20 minutes earlier where he said we should have traded Valimaki.
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I mean, I would have been fine with giving up Valimaki in the right deal. The Flames have the luxury that they have a number of very good defensive prospects. But it was never a necessity.
Two things changed that:
1) Valimaki alone (or with a smaller add than a 1st) would not have been enough
2) Stone re-signed for much more than expected
Anyway, the point of this thread is to say that this team is already good enough. I think they could have traded a guy like Valimaki in the right deal, but because they didn't, they have a great luxury on the back-end. And, they're good enough that adding someone wasn't a real necessity at the end of the day.