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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Hmm Vegas has made mistakes for sure.
Suzuki + Tatar + 2nd for Pacioretty is a bad trade long term
They gave up a lot of assets for Tatar in the first place which was bad (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Glass wasn't a great pick at 6th overall.
They made a bit of a mess of their cap and goalie situation with the whole Fleury / Lehner debacle.
Firing Gallant for DeBoer is still a bit questionable IMO.
Difference is the expansion draft allowed them to have a stock pile of assets because other teams really screwed up that expansion draft, and that means that the mistakes they have made can be covered up easily.
And then the other thing is that we are talking about the city of Las Vegas here...which provides an advantage that Calgary just can't compete with in terms of getting guys like Stone and Pietrangelo to go there to start with.
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Right, I realize they've made mistakes, but like I said, they haven't made a ton of them.
At the end of the day though, their ability to target the right players to play the system that they wanted to deploy was excellent managerial execution. They wanted to play with pace and check like fiends and their brain trust found the right pieces to do it.
Had the Flames been able to execute to a similar degree instead of making bad misjudgment after bad misjudgment, then the Flames would have had a more successful run during their window.
But alas, here we are, competing once again with the Golden Knights for the services of another star player and it looks like history will repeat itself.