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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Asset management is not the Flames strong suit.
I wonder what the prospect cupboard might look like had they not dealt all this picks for Hamonic and instead of hanging onto Brodie they would have traded him for picks despite being a bubble team.
But then I guess we wouldn't have had all that playoff success to fondly look back on the last few seasons.
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Considering the Flames came close to extending Brodie I am not upset they let him walk without trading him but the Hamonic deal absolutely killed the rebuild. To give up 3 high quality assets for a bottom pairing Dman who did nothing but crater the value of the partner he played with. Brodie was public enemy number 1 after his year with Hamonic. Hanifin has looked unbelievably better when paired with Andersson or Tanev. Tanev elevated him to a level where he could be a top pairing guy but when he was with Hamonic he looked borderline bottom pairing at times.
The Flames would likely have Noah Dobson (he slid a little in the draft so I assume the Flames would have also picked him) and I would feel a lot better about losing Gio in expansion if we had him in our system