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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I very rarely say this but I think Calgary could have and should have beaten this offer and got Taylor Hall.
I think the firepower is exactly what we need right now and a new energized hometown kid would be eager to get going again. A shame and I can only assume the price was too high but man... this one would have been terrific for Calgary, seems like a missed opportunity here.
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I agree, it seems like a missed opportunity that right now makes me want to be hyper critical of Tree - but then again, if Tree goes out and gets him on July 1st, awesome!
Thinking about this though, I’m not sure I understand Treliving’s plan, or how he projects things - both now, and how he started his time here.
I look back at the Hamonic trade. That was a huge asset expenditure to acquire a player on a good value contract for three years...but I then have to wonder, what the hell was the point of making that trade if we weren’t going to continue to be aggressive and try and compete in that three year window? Why speed up the rebuild only to get conservative after you’ve already bled years of assets, both in big deals (Hamonic) and smaller useless deals (Elliott, Lazar). Hamonic is likely going to move on after this year, making that cost we sunk into acquiring him for three useless seasons...kind of just meaningless and an utter waste. I just really don’t understand the impatience early in the rebuild, and this conservative approach at this stage of it.