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Originally Posted by Cobra
The job of a GM is to sign your most talented player before his UFA year or trade him for assets.
Some on this forum argue that it is ok for if he leaves as you get cap space.
These same people also say the GM job is hard here as no FA want to come to Calgary.
So having cap space is useless if no big FA will come here.
This team lacks high end talent (playoff performance) so potentially losing Johnny for nothing is inexcusable.
A good GM in a market that has trouble getting FA talent never gets to this position.
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For all we know, ownership did not allow him to trade him.