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Originally Posted by bubbsy
Not really fair. Treliving clearly had a play to improve the roster but it got nixed by a player's NTC.
The lack of plan B so far is troubling, but given how dynamic the market is, with teams needs being updated on the fly in real time, not entirely his fault either.
Unfortunately, trying is one thing, but if he's left himself in a spot where the market for Brodie, Frolik no longer exists, and there are no real targets to bring in players to improve the team, then the roster is basically the same as last year (minus smith, Hathaway). I am not overly excited about that either, as I expect regression from guys that had career years, but at the same time, what kind of growth can we expect from Tkachuk, dube, Jankowski, valimaki, Andersson, and how much better is the goalie situation with Talbot vs smith.
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It was not nixed by a player's NTC. If it was it was considerably more than Brodie at fully salary for Kadri as the actual trade was Colorado giving far more.
If it was all up to Trevling then he could have traded Neal for Kadri
--- basically as much of a reasonable chance as Brodie for Kadri even up.
Maybe the Flames owe the Leafs a future favor by them saying Kadri used his NTC rather than saying the Flames way over value their players?