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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Even that one is dead 
Perhaps i am too negative but if i read through all the trades we've made since 89, I just feel like wow, how did the Flames flip heads 400 times in a row over three decades and several GMs? By that I mean, you think they would've accidentally won more trades than they did just based on the law of averages. It's like we are a farm team or something. Well, from 95-03 we kind of were i guess.
I mean Jim Benning wins as many trades per year as the Flames historically do haha. It's annoying. I have ptsd flashbacks every time i hear we've made a trade.
When the two Hamilton trades rank as probably the two best trades of the cap era, you have problems. Don't they me wrong, they were good trades, fair trades for both even if Boston squandered their picks. Tre gave up value and got value. I think it's why so many think those trades were fleecings. We are just not used to actual, fair trades that are good for both so the Hamilton trades look like heists. |
Not sure if Saprykin and Gauthier for Langkow counts as "cap era" or not, as it was in the off-season before the first cap season, but it was a very good trade.