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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Every team makes mistakes like Hamonic (which was just a pricing error, and not much of one at that). Signing Neal certainly hampered the team as well. But some things were just fate - Bennett didn’t pan out to a 4th overall standard. Gillies’ and Parsons injuries.
There’s a whole lotta luck in a cup run.
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Only a pricing error, and not much of one?
I guess it’s all related but they whiffed on the price and the quality of the asset they were acquiring IMO. And they misjudged the value of the compensation they gave up. They did know what position he played so I’ll give them that.
Not many teams have traded those types of picks for that type of player so unfortunately I’d say that mistake wasn’t a typical one. What we need is for Flames to be on the other side of that kind of trade but there seems to be reluctance to moving players for picks unless they’re already out the door.
Maybe Flames have had more bad luck in terms of fate than other teams. Not so sure about that really.