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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
For the record, Caged Great here on CP had a chat with him here in Calgary one of those years (probably the July 2017 Dev camp?) and Fox mentioned with some level of concern that the Flames seemed to have a lot of defensemen. At that time we would have had Hamilton, Hamonic, Stone and Andersson who were all righthanded shots, plus Giordano, Brodie, Kulak, Kylington, Valimaki who were all lefthanded shots - and four of those five had all played the right side at some point prior.
So even if the longstanding theory that "Fox wanted to go nowhere else but NYR" is untrue, it's probably safe to say that Treliving's claim that Fox was not interested in signing here is very factual - just not for the purported reasons.
IIRC Brandon Hickey was another guy who wasn't interested in signing here - despite being a native Albertan. He was packaged into the Mike Smith trade.
Ultimately, prospects want an opportunity.
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Hickey didn't sign with Arizona either. I just don't think he was viewed as much of a prospect so they traded him to land a goalie.
By the time we traded fox it was pretty clear he was a top prospect and doubt he was worried about us finding a spot for him.