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Originally Posted by Infinit47
You have to add the $750k they retained into that though. So it's $2.66mln for 2 years and $1.9 for an additional 2 years. Amd the Flames got a 3rd, which has value.
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First off the pick will be somewhere in the 70-75 range I would think. It's a nice bonus, but these isn't the NFL where teams draft solid starters consistently in round 3. It's nice to have, but it's pretty unlikely to do much of anything in regards to moving the needle for this franchise.
I'm looking at it more from the perspective of Treliving handed out an awful contract and hew was more or less told by ownership that he get's no more get out of jail cards after using them on Stone and Brouwer. In this case he was forced to find a usable player and appears to have done so. But he put himself in that hot seat. Under very few other circumstances does a trade to acquire Lucic's contract work. So being in that situation i the first place was a bad place to be in.