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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
For sure but if Treliving makes that same deal for the Flames people here would be pulling their hair out mad. I understand why the Penguins did it but if you are strictly looking at the trade based on assets moving in and out it's an extremely poor trade for the Penguins. You simply don't trade that sort of capital for a decent player.
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Flames fans would rightly be mad because we have different issues we have to solve with those assets.
The Pens have specific needs, based on the window they have with Crosby and Malkin. Saying they could have done better is easy, but who are they going to get for that kind of money? Kapanen could easily score 25 goals on the Pens, I don't think that's a stretch at all. And for $2.6M cash, and $3.2M cap hit, that's a really good player.
Having said that, I also like it from Toronto's perspective. They dropped cap and got a first round pick, which suits their needs.
Both teams got what they needed.