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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It was a great contract - he won a fricking Norris!
And now, the Flames are going to get out of the last year of it, making it a crazy-good contract. Pretty much a dream scenario, from the time of signing.
And yet most posters are doing nothing but bitching about it.
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I think the issue is more - We weren't anywhere near good enough last year, and we are loosing our 2nd or 3rd best defenseman for nothing , can we really get much better this year?
And since the answer is probably NO - Then why did we hold onto him last year when we were out of the playoffs?
If Andersson and Valimaki takes big leaps and we have a solid top 4, and don't waste Gio's $$ on another overpaid D but a scoring forward it has the potential to work out great.
It's just a weird sequence of asset management unless Gio truely had zero value at the deadline. But that seems weird as the team acquiring could have just left him unprotected and had Seattle (most likely) pick him anyways.