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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
This passing up on Stone thing is weird to me. Maybe I’m in the minority, but sounds like it was pretty clear Stone wasn’t going to sign here. So when evaluating the assets we would have parted with, it’s not a comparison point to what Vegas did because they knew Stone wanted to be there.
Stone rejected Calgary as a long term destination which rightfully so dictated a far more cautious approach from BT on assets like Valimaki. (I obviously don’t know this to be fact, but seems to be the consensus from insiders like Friedman that Stone was very focused on Vegas as his long term landing spot).
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Was it clear Stone was not going to sign?
The only thing I saw was that Stone gave no indication of his intentions to sign post trade, and it was a bit of a surprise that he did sign right away in Vegas.
Either way, it's obviously a hindsight argument, to state Calgary should have thrown a bunch of large assets at Stone. However, I do think it makes a difference as to how the Flames are perceived in future negotiations with upcoming UFAs.