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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Are we giving him credit for this?
He tried to trade for a guy who throat slash gestured the captain, gets suspended annually, and Toronto was trying to unload (despite having a NTC). Good player but maybe just a couple of red flags or so. Oh, also who didn’t want to come to Calgary and invoked his NTC
The guy he is offering to get rid of? A top pairing D. Brodie, with whom Gio played at Norris level
Depending how you view the positional need at C, this looks like a pretty clear win for Toronto on multiple fronts
It gets public so Brodie knows the Leafs have interest, and knows the Flames were open to moving him
Then he made Brodie wait until he was done upgrading Talbot to Karlsson and pre paying Rasmus.
That was a cluster#### across the board that played out with Treliving the loser, standing in the rain
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Yes.
It would have improved the hockey team. We all saw how soft the club was against the Avs in that series, and this was a very good deal for the Flames to address that weakness.
I just wish it had happened.
Look at the numbers for those two players since.
Losing Brodie was inevitable, at least in this case there would have been a substantial return.