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Originally Posted by dino7c
Stone as a rental would have been bad at any price let alone Vali. Flames still would have lost to the AVS, then what. I wish people would stop talking about that like it was a big fail.
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I think it's foolish to assume Stone would have left in free agency. Yes we probably needed to pay him slightly more but it would have been worth it.
If you want to look at the failed trade in a vacuum, we missed an opportunity to get a star player and improve as a team. It's that simple.
And then for those that want to look at it with context,. Yes we probably would have needed to trade Mony or Johnny or whoever to make space. But they probably could have brought back a significant return at the time. Recoup assets lost by trading Vali. Maybe get a D prospect with just as much potential. Would we really have been worse off than the gong show we have now? I highly doubt it.