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Old 07-21-2021, 08:22 PM   #241
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
This year's trade deadline? Oh, no, never mind. Any contender would have needed the tagging room to take on Giordano's contract for '21-22, in spite of knowing that they were dead certain to lose him for nothing in the expansion draft. Any team that had a protection slot to waste on a 38-year-old player with one year left on his deal was not a contender.

This stuff has all been pointed out over and over again, and none of the ‘Treliving DUMB’ crowd have ever come up with a plausible trade that the Flames could have made at that time. Maybe, just maybe, not everything that goes wrong in the world is Brad Treliving's fault?
Sorry I'm not buying it. Teams who are contending load up for playoffs and worry about things like this later. There are multiple options. You get him for a playoff run and maybe you lose him. Maybe some teams are willing to protect him over someone else. Maybe a team is able to trade another player to make room as we saw some teams do this off season. There are multiple options. A team who wanted to make a run who risks losing him for nothing in a worse case scenario makes a lot more sense than a team who was clearly out of the playoffs and going nowhere. But sure tell yourself whatever you need to justify more terrible asset management.
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