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Originally Posted by Sandman
Fox was taken by the Flames at Jim Cummins' insistence. He supposedly "dug his heels in"and basically demanded they not leave the draft without Fox. Just shows how many question marks there were about him, despite his eye-popping offensive numbers.
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I look at it this way. Would we have gotten Lindholm and Hanifin without the Fox sweetener? I'd argue no. So it was still worth it to burn a third round to draft him, because he became an important trade chip.