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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Most of those deals were bad because of timing and/or Jay Feaster.
Iginla needed to be traded earlier to get good value for him. Ownership cling to competing in his waning years when Feaster should’ve told them it was time to rebuild. But Feaster was a bit clueless about that.
Bouwmeester didn’t need to be traded when he was, and again, a bad Feaster deal.
Regehr didn’t need to be traded at all. Should’ve been Sarich instead. And again, bad Feaster deal wasn’t it?
Neal had to be dumped. He had to be dumped this summer. It’s hard to win trades where you need to dump a toxic contract badly. And this is the result.
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Is there some objective evidence supporting the notion that Neal had to be traded NOW?
Bingo clearly brings it up as an assumption, not fact. Now it seems to be cited by many supporting the deal. It’s all rather circular because the best evidence supporting that supposition is that otherwise Treliving wouldn’t have much a trade.