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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
It's absolutely ridiculous that the Flames biggest need on the blue line is a top pairing guy who can drive the offence from the back end, and despite drafting one of those in the 3rd round 5 years ago, we had to trade him as an add on and couldn't keep him because all he had to do was wait one more year and sign wherever the #### he wanted to.
The Flames could have....no SHOULD have had a Norris quality defenseman on their roster this past season who is STILL ON HIS ELC.
It's an absolute travesty that great drafting like that does nothing to help your team. Why eve have a ####ing draft if more and more high quality future NHLers are going the college route and can basically just choose their own destination if they want to, and no sense of loyalty to a team that drafts them?
This kind of #### makes me not want to follow sports anymore. My favorite team my whole life has been about as mediocre as you can get for the last 30 years, buteven when they do something right they don't get any benefit out of it.
Seriously. Imagine the Flames with a Norris quality Dman on their roster this past year eating up barely more than a league minimum contract. Does that move the needle when it was our biggest weakness on the back end? Yeah, it probably does.
It ain't right.
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If it makes you feel any better, he probably would not be on his ELC anymore with the Flames. Their best hope of signing him was over two years ago and burning a year from his ELC in the process.
Of course I would take that in a heartbeat.
MLB does have similar issue. Guys go back in the draft all the time with the hope of improving their position and/or getting drafted by someone else. They don’t have standard elc’s so a guy like Fox would have undoubtedly wanted to go back in the draft and improve his position and rookie contract.