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Originally Posted by blankall
Backlund only really fell off this year. Until recently he was a top defensive centre who put up 45-50 points while making players around him better. So last year the solution to the Flames problems was to give Backlund, who was on pace for 50 points, with a tire for of a team around him way less ice time?
And then what do you do with the expansion draft? We probably expose Dube instead, who looked like a sure fire soon to be second liner last year.
Can Bennett carry a line of Coleman and Mangiapane? That's about as big of a top 6 downgrade as you can get from being stapled to Huberdeau.
A lot of hindsight going on here.
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The hindsight play was moving on from Monahan while it was possible, creating some flexibility.
Some people have been talking about moving Monahan for whatever picks you could get for years. But it seems that Treliving was focusing on trying to make a "hockey trade". This organization is just so afraid of taking a temporary step back.