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Originally Posted by Flamesguy_SJ
Ryan O'Reilly
Brayden Schenn
Nazem Kadri
Just off the top of my head. All ended up being moved for reasonable prices, and two were major reasons St. Louis did what they did. I know Flash (RIP) had pretty strong feelings on BT's inability to acquire either of them.
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Wait. These are the dominant 1Cs the Flames missed on? ROR was not exactly a hot commodity though I wanted to see a trade involving Backlund at the time. And the other two are 2Cs at best and neither are dominant puck possession guys. Plus Treliving did move to acquire Kadri. Had it done. You can’t blame him for Kadri not being here.
Lindholm is a better C than Kadri or Schenn.