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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
The Colorado Avalanche won two cups because they stole Patrick Roy from Montreal.
Something they wouldn’t have been able to do if they were the Quebec Nordiques.
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The Colorado Avalanche were able to trade for Patrick Roy because they had Jocelyn Thibault to offer as part of the deal. They drafted Thibault with one of the picks that came from the Lindros trade.
Without the huge haul that the franchise got from the Lindros trade, the Avs would not have been able to make the later trades that built their first championship team. On the other hand, if the Flyers had kept Forsberg, Ricci, Duchesne, Hextall, Huffman, Simon, and their two first-round picks, they would have been a much better team than they ever became with Lindros.
It's worth noting that at the last minute, the Nordiques tried to back out of the deal with Philadelphia and trade Lindros to the Rangers instead. When the arbitrator ruled that the Philly deal had to be adhered to, the Rangers kept their assets — and two years later, they won the Stanley Cup.
The Flames would not be giving up a Peter Forsberg in a trade with Buffalo, but then, Eichel is no Lindros either. It all comes back to the basic truth: Some prices are too high to be worth paying.