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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
You are ignoring all the contract factors
The Flames got two young top of the lineup players
At worst it’s a trade that has worked for both teams
Nowhere near the Hamonic and Neal failures
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The trade only really works out from a contract perspective because of the Ferland injury, unless the assumption is that the Flames could not have signed him for 3.5 million a year.
If Ferland is not injured, and remained a physical 40 point guy who pots 15-20, and Hamilton is what he has been the past 3 seasons, it is hard to argue that for those 3 seasons their combined 9.2 million would not have been better spent than the combined 9.8 million spent on Lindholm and Hanifin over the past 3 years. That is not even counting what Fox is worth.
But Ferland got injured, so the trade looks a lot better for Calgary.