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Originally Posted by Bingo
What a pointless post.
I said a rumour is factual if a deal is being discussed. You just repeated the same thing back after earlier saying a deal has to come to fruition for a rumour to be factual. Which is it?
And I never said the Eichel stuff was a factual rumour, but Eichel doesn't have to end up in Calgary for it to be a fact that the two teams have been talking.
Plus I'd give some rumours more credit based on the frequency and the sources, two things that I believe we see in the Eichel discussions.
Add in the fact that Treliving is in on everything and it becomes less of a threshold to be a factual rumour.
Are you really suggesting the two teams aren't talking? Talk about a salmon and upstream.
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You're missing the point. TOfan tried to make these Eichel rumors seem righteous and discount the Tkachuk rumors in the offseason, based mostly on their personal preference for sources. How is this "rumor" any more substantive than the one that was being bounced around about Tkachuk? They are all just conjecture - and mostly bull#### - until something actually happens. And no, frequency or number of sources brings no substance to them either. Media types will jump on bandwagons just as hard as fans will, and they will get wrapped up in the bull#### just as much as the fans will. They talk to person X, who is repeating what they heard, while not disclosing that what they heard came from the same primary source. Ah, but now you have two sources who heard the same thing, right? More credence to the "rumor" right? No, just the same lame rumor, but with more telephone involved. Repetition of rumor does not give it credence. It just means there are more people out there willing to talk about it.
Do I think something is happening? Yes, I do. Buffalo and the league needs this to come a close. Do I think the Flames are in the middle of it? No more than every other "rumor" that has been around where Treliving was in the mix, but came up empty. I'm sure he's put an offer in. I'm sure he calls Buffalo every now and then to see if there is any change. Do I think it is a leading offer and the Flames are a team likely to make the deal? No. Not with the current makeup of the team, not with the current cap situation, and not with the early success the team has had. Unless they find a way to magically make $10M in cap space appear, the Flames are not in this. But without that big chunk of cap space, or a third party willing to take on some of the Flames cap problems (more assets going out with nothing coming back), making a trade for Eichel is an impossibility.