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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Lindholm at his contract is the very best value on the team and it's not particularly close. Acquiring him was a huge win. He's probably the best thing this club has going for it.
But you also need elite players to win and you have to figure out a way to pay them.
As it turns out, Hamilton wouldn't have been the difference in this club competing IMO so we'd be sitting in a tough spot right now with him approaching UFA. The better answer would have been him fitting better here and wanting to play here long term.
In the reality we live in, Flames did as good as you could expect dealing away two elite players who didn't want to be here.
It does sting that you might look back one day and realize you dealt away two future Norris winners.
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Sutter released one. We just got lucky and he came back.
With Fox it doesn’t sting at all. He was never a Flame in my mind, just an asset who would never have played here ever. There’s lots of worse “he would have been great here” trades where the player would have happily stayed. Hull, MSL, Savard.