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Originally Posted by Bingo
Part of a huge trade ...
March 10, 1994: Traded to Calgary by Hartford with James Patrick and Zarley Zalapski for Gary Suter, Paul Ranheim and Ted Drury.
Then part of a minor one ...
January 19, 1999: Traded to Tampa Bay by Calgary for Andrei Nazarov.
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Hated both trades. Suter was clearly the best player in the trade. Flames traded Gary suterbecause the changing salary structure of the league and the falling Canadian dollar meant they knew they couldn’t keep both Suter and MacInnis when their contracts came up for renewal. So they gave up Suter saying the rationale was that they could afford to sign MacInnis the following year. Then, when MacInnis was going to get $3 million/yr long term from St Louis they decided thay couldn’t afford it and traded him for Housley (a year later MacInnis’ St Louis contract would have been a bargain for the Flames). So they ended up with neither Suter nor MacInnis.
In spite of the above, I liked Nylander, and thought that trading him away for Nazarov was another loss.