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Originally Posted by sketchyt
I'll write the post for you if that happened:
It's hilarious. Montreal had to deal with an offer sheet and they managed to engineer a deal to fill the gap in a couple days. Treliving? Still trying to find his ass in a phonebooth using both hands and having benefit of a roadmap. I hate "big game" hunters.
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The Dvorak deal wasn't some feat. Dvorak had been on the block for quite some time. The price of a first was still known. Montreal might also miss the playoffs, which makes this a risky deal for them. Montreal would have missed the playoffs last year, in an awful north division, if Calgary hadn't blown all those Ottawa games.
I get that Montreal had an amazing playoff run, but people expecting their pick to be a guaranteed bottom 10 pick, are out to lunch.
The Flames need a #1 centre, which is much harder to aquire than a #2. The Flames could have made this exact deal for Dvorak. CP would have blown up, if we'd traded the first.
I think this was a bad move but Montreal. They were forced into it, because they couldn't retain Denault and Kotkainiemi signed an offer sheet, due to Montreal's previous bungling with their own offer sheet and cap mismanagement.
Montreal does not deserve praise for these moves. They may actually work out if Dvorak becomes great, but it's bungling at it's finest.