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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
So no Krebs makes you a “distant second”? I guess it’s the phrase “distant second” that makes me skeptical. I find that very tough to believe that Treliving didn’t at least make a decent offer(ish). Otherwise if the offer was a distant second what was that and what did Treliving think he could get him for?
Also, I’m not convinced Krebs is even that much better than our prospects but I know that doesn’t matter.
After all this, all I can say for sure is that Adams is a horrendous train wreck of a GM. This trade had to be made before the draft, before cap structures were solidified. This return for Jack Eichel is… not good IMO.
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I think Tuch being young, signed for 5 years at a decent cap hit, and from the area, probably played a major part in the deal. Flames have nobody like that to offer. We weren't gonna give up Lindholm. Coleman just signed. All these proposals with Monahan were completely out to lunch. Tuch really is the only known asset they got. A Flames package would have been almost entirely unknown futures and none would have been high end enough to have a bit more certainty. Then of course Krebs is slightly ahead of most of our prospects in development which is probably the next consideration. Maybe they like him more as a player as well.