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					Originally Posted by ComixZone  The Avs, a team much closer to contending than us, are out their being proactive and trading away a very good defenceman so as to not lose an asset for nothing…
 …and us, a non-playoff team, are doing everything we can to persuade Seattle to not take our 38 year old (very good) defenceman or will just lose him for nothing.
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If the Flames could get an asset for Giordano they probably would.  The problem is he has 
a) trade protection
b) a pretty significant cap hit
c) the team that gives up assets for him will need to use an expansion protection slot on him over younger players