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Originally Posted by TOfan
Thornton is a pretty poor comparable. Just because Mike O'Connell made one of the worst deals in modern hockey history 15 years ago shouldn't be indicative of what Jarmo Kekalinen will do. Frankly, I would put zero stock on that deal. It was a one off deal that landed the GM of the Bruins on the outside of the GM's circle permanently. GM's around the league tend to take note of that sort of thing.
Same goes with Seguin. Bottom line, Kekalinen is far too shrewd a GM to mishandle this.
as for 'massively overpay' what does that mean? I think you are pretending to know what the market is on the player, but you don't. Friedman said yesterday that already GM's are making serious offers. There doesn't sound like there is much beating around the bush here. This is a prime asset set to hit the market, if he hasn't already. Again, the price will be steep.
I'm not necessarily of the mind that the Flames should do the trades the morning guys were suggesting, but I don't think they are far off the asking price.
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LOL. Your opinion is valid but mine isn't? Ok dude. Your opinion is the outlier here. That is probably where you should begin when assessing what is and what isn't valid.
Friedman saying there is lots of interest does not in any way indicate that your crazy price is validated.