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Originally Posted by Itse
Looking at the trades, I feel we got in part screwed by our shortage of tradeable prospects.
It's a side effect of trading away your draft picks.
...also Treliving screwed up by signing James Neal. Replace him with someone cheap and there's plenty of cap space for, say, Stone.
That contract is an anchor, no two ways about it.
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I think the lack of picks was the bigger missing chip. For the most part I believe teams would rather have a pick, where their scouts can choose someone, as opposed to a prospect, UNLESS, that prospect is really good
So the Flames didn't have a 2019 2nd.
And they didn't have prospects that probably could be used instead of that. The second tier guys like Philips, Foo, Gillies, etc aren't that.
So unless they were willing to trade one of the big 3 young dmen, or Dube - then they didn't have much to deal.