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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Hall is a first-overall, Hart-winning, born-and-raised Calgarian winger who grew up cheering for the Flames and is still in his prime.
Flames fans: “Eww, gross! No thank you!”
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Who has injury issues, has played 82 games once in his career, is 28, makes $6M, upcoming UFA with an acquisition cost and needs a new contract and plays a position we dont really need to strengthen.
Taylor Hall is a good player and I'd love to have him. I just dont see where he fits and dont like the prospect of paying to acquire him or paying to retain him considering what we'd have to give up.
Theres a lot of negatives involved in Taylor Hall and not all of them have anything to do with him being a good player or not. He is. But theres more to it than that.
If the stars aligned and he'd be inexpensive to acquire and wouldnt throw our cap into absolute hell to retain and he slotted into the team nicely I'd love to have him but there has to be more to it than just:
"Oooh!! Shiny new toy!!"