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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Basically that boils down to life not being fair. But he had a chance to trade for a 1C in O'Reilly, and he chose not to or wasn't included in negotiations or felt the ask was too high. I personally think they could have beaten that offer fairly easily and he should be a flame today. It made so much sense. O'Reilly would've been the perfect ying to Monahan's yang.
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Oh my don't get me started on ROR moving and the Flames not getting him haha. Preaching to the choir
I scratch my head at that. If he talked to the Sabres, which I assume he did, I wonder what the ask was? I also wonder if they still thought Bennett might surge ahead as well so they looked at their depth chart of C's...
Monahan
Lindholm (just acquired)
Backlund
Bennett (couple flat years but still just 21)
Janko (just 23 and had just potted 17 goals as a rookie)
..and thought yeah we'd like ROR but the cost is too high and we should be OK at C.
If so, whoops....