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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Why not?? If you take Backlund instead of Gio we will give you the rights for Derek Ryan?? Or a 5th?? Happened a bunch of times with Vegas.
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Yeah, and how did that work out for the other team? And they can get Ryan for free. They have the pre-UFA window to secure him if they want him.
BTW Johnson is a horrible comparison. Dude is paid about 55th and scores well below that level - in the 70s. Backlund is the opposite. Plus in a trade you can retain salary, as opposed to waivers.
Bottom line - if Calgary wanted to lose Backlund, they wouldn’t have talked Lucic into waiving.