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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Next morning, it's just sad. It also shows how underachieving the Flames are. Here is a team that arguably has 11 players better than Mark Giordano, and cannot make the playoffs? I'm not sure many other teams protected 11 better players than Calgary did. And that doesn't even include the already traded Bennett.
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It's not that there are 11 players who are better than Giordano. There aren't.
The decision on who to protect is basically based on value (trade value?).
Gio, because of his age and contract, was deemed to have less value moving forward.
Also, since only 3-5 defensemen can be protected, the defense are kind of in their own vacuum as separated from the forwards and goalies.