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Originally Posted by Bingo
Doesn't every NHL team have a half dozen "I can't believe you gave this guy away" and a half dozen "I can't believe you got that player for so little"?
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yes I'm sure they all do , I mean we have draft gaffes as does every team for sure- and there are the blown trades or the controversial trades- and these are often rehashed here (Gilmour, Hull (very different story), others worry about the Iggy return or the loss of other veterans around that time frame, heck every GM (Sutter etc) had their botched phase- trader Cliff less than most
I guess in poor Buttons case, even though there were circumstances (expansion drafts, players behaving badly etc) but the fact he got essentially nothing for St. Louis, Giguere and Savard, who ended up being stars for the following decade or so was a bit tough for many to swallow, especially at a time where the Flames had such little homegrown or young talent to crow about