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Originally Posted by flambers
Not sure anyone is saying the Gm sat on his hands and did nothing, obviously he has a reputation of working hard...
However I don't buy the statement there was no one out there that was willing to make a trade. Kadri thing happened on July 1st or something like that.
Seems to excel at signing his RFAs, drafting has improved
UFAs and trades are lacking.
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All you have to do is look at the other players who were traded last summer to get an idea of what the trade market was.
Here's every trade that went down from May 1 - October 1 last year:
https://www.capfriendly.com/trades?d...12019-10012019
There isn't a single trade that happened after the Kadri deal where I look at the players and wish the Flames had been able to get one of them.
The worst thing a GM can do is make a panic trade after another trade fell through just for the sake of making a trade.
That's how you end up trading a 1st and a 2nd round draft pick for Griffin Reinhart. Chiarelli was so focused on getting Hamilton from Boston either through a trade or an offer sheet that when Calgary got him, Chiarelli lost his mind and gave up nearly the same return for a guy who had played 8 NHL games at that point.