A lot of that talk is moot, due to the landscape of that time. Calgary was not re-signing all of Iginla, St. Louis, Savard, Giguere, Stillman etc if they had all become the stars they were on other teams, before the lockout of '05.
It would have been the usual mid 90's carousal of "players get good, trade players for prospects to stay under budget and start again".
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