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Originally Posted by Fischy13
Calgary is lacking the elite talents that prop up middling players that can be spent for more draft capital. Look at SJ back in the day, Thornton feeding Cheecho and Setoguchi for 50 goals seasons. They flipped those guys and just kept the pipeline going. The Flames need Eichel for this reason alone and he will singlehandedly replace a good amount of the acquisition cost he comes with.
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What? Nothing about those trades added to draft capital or pipeline. They traded them with picks for big names.
Cheechoo stays in SJ until he was 28 and done, then they traded a 2nd with him for Dany Heatly…. Pipeline net negative.
They added a first round pick to Setoguchi. For Burns.