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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The thing about trading for rights isn't so you can save cap space, it's so that you can be the first one to the trough to overpay and convince that player not to go to free agency.
If you're going to make it worth it to trade for someone's rights, you have to make sure you didn't throw away a draft pick for a couple extra days with a phone number.
Bouwmeester isn't the only player who the flames have traded for the rights of only to offer an above market rate contract:
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=118592
Fundamentally, you trade for the rights because you aren't super confident your offer will standout next to any others. IMO, it's a desperation maneuver.
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Or because you aren't trading Gaudreau without a replacement ready to go. You can't make a trade to create the cap-space for a big free agent prior to free agency and then just hope that it works out...
...mother !@#$ing Jay Feaster. Thanks for Chris Butler you dillhole. Let's PAY to get rid of Robyn Regehr just to take a stab at Brad Richards on Day 1 of free agency ffs. Trades like that set your organization set back hugely.
Speculation aside, Taylor Hall is just one of my favourite non-Flames players in the league. I really want that guy on the team.