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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Calling the Hamonic trade a fiasco is way too strong. It ended up being an overpayment, but the Flames have had several solid years from a middle pairing, tough-as-nails, great character defenseman on a very, very affordable contract. Too many higher end picks for that, but it's not the end of the world either.
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It was worse than that IMO.
He overvalued Hamonic, who in my view is an average NHL defender and isn’t the difference between winning and losing most nights.
He undervalued the picks he gave up, overestimating the team he had assembled. A devastating loss of premium draft picks (12,43 and 57) for a team that still needed to be building talent.
The cap space benefit shouldn’t have been worth that much to a team still developing and was wasted on overpriced UFA’s and buyouts.
He was skinned by one of the worst GM’s in the league.
I don’t know what words to use but it was bad.