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Originally Posted by Hackey
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.
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Mangiapane, Zary/Coronato, 1st, 2nd would have been very comparable if not better. Problem is that there wasn't enough money in this package...so they would have had to do + Lucic+1st or +Zadorov + Pitlick or something like that. At that point it doesn't work.
As a result...Flames probably went
Monahan + Zary/Pelletier + 1st + 2nd. While the quantity is the same...I would take the Vegas package over that by a mile...unless Monahan finds his 20-30g pace without Johnny.
I don't think it's that we didn't have the horses to make this trade....its that we had to move money in addition which had an extra cost and would have depleted our roster.