^What makes Calgary unique is that over the long-term they have been pretty awful at managing the asset base via
- Trading players for next to nothing or past the point you can extract value from them
- Letting future core players walk or giving them away
- Poor drafting over sustained periods of time (Chucko, Irving, Pelech, etc).
You can look at each case in isolation and understand why, but ultimately you have to win more than you lose with each of these decisions. And I think under the current regime they are doing that. But for a very long-term that wasn't the case.
Lose trades
Allow good players to walk
Draft poorly
That creates an asset poor organization that becomes a hard hole to dig out of.
They have started to dig out now - but losing an asset like Johnny for little will just be a repeat of it.
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