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Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame
Sorry, I thought Hamonic returned just before the TDL.
As for Brodie, that deal was in the offseason if I recall. TDL arrives and Brodie stays. Surely there must have been partners willing to trade higher draft picks for TJ Freakin Brodie at that time?
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The Flames were on track to make the playoffs. Whether or not we like what happened, there was no way Treliving was moving his #2 defenseman in the middle of a playoff race. It might have been something he would have considered if there were players ready to step in, but the Flames were already missing Hamonic.
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As for evidence the GM has fallen in love with his team....
In the last 5 games since the hail-mary to Darryl "I've retired from coaching hockey" Sutter, Johnny & Monny have combined for a pitiful 3 points and -3 in the most desperate hockey games of the season.
That should sound familiar because that's what they do in the playoffs.
They should have been gone last offseason.
And yet they're still on the roster.
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I have no doubt that under normal circumstances one of Monahan or Gaudreau would have been traded in the off-season. There were a total of five hockey trades in the off-season before the Laine for Dubois swap, and most of these were of a fairly insignificant variety:
· F Marcus Johansson for F Eric Staal
· D Mike Matheson; F Colton Sceviour for F Patric Hornqvist
· F Josh Anderson for F Max Domi; 2020 3rd-Round Pick
· D Anton Lindholm; D Nikita Zadorov for D Dennis Gilbert; F Brandon Saad
· F Cedric Paquette; D Braydon Coburn; 2022 2nd-Round Pick for F Marian Gaborik; G Anders Nilsson
What do you see there that the Flames missed out on?
I think that COVID 19 has made it incredibly difficult to make deals, which is why there have been so few of them. I would suggest that this more than anything is the reason why both Gaudreau and Monahan are still on the roster, and not because of some supposed unbreakable attachment by the GM.