After reading more and more about this as it has trickled out - unfortunately Calgary was never really in on this - and to no fault of Treliving. Right or wrong (time will tell) Adams put the blinders on and targeted certain assets from the very get go - none of which were Flames pieces. From all accounts Calgary was offering the most value overall, but Buffalo had already honed in and had their hearts set on acquiring Tuch/Krebs.. We were used as the middle man to get Buffalo the pieces they wanted. That hurts, but that's the reality of the situation. Now I suppose you can make the argument that Tkachuk should have been made available here, and I wouldn't disagree with you on that, but that's a really tough trade to even think about making for a player needing serious surgery, and a long recovery - especially when you factor in what happened with the Brodie fiasco. You seriously risk losing the players interest in staying long term if a deal falls apart and they feel unwanted. The social media world has really made things difficult in that regard.
That doesn't even take into account that the stars all but aligned here for Vegas to be able to in my opinion circumvent a broken cap system in the NHL.
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