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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Several reasons. A team may give up waiting for potential to be realized and trade a young centre who has #1 upside because he’s disappointed. Why did CAR trade a 1st line W/C in Lindholm last summer? Because the owner was being cheap and Lindholm hadn’t broken out yet. Another reason is changing depth in one area for another. CBJ traded a young 30 goal scoring centre and NSH traded a young potential franchise defenseman in Seth Jones. Those are the types of players you say GMs never let go but actually they do sometimes.
Both those statements are 100% untrue in my opinion. Market value is what a player is worth so they can’t be worth more than it. The second statement is just clearly untrue IMO
Same was said of Hamilton last summer. Can’t trade him, contract too good, too valuable, you can never win a deal with Dougie Hamilton in it. Can’t improve the Flames by trading Hamilton. People told me these same things last off-season when we started to talk about Hamilton and his warts.
How that logic looking a year later?
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You think Johnny and Mony don't get their current contract if they were UFA today? That's crazy talk. I think Mony gets 8+ and Johnny gets 10+