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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I enjoy your analogy, it made me laugh (it really did). But I'm failing to see the significance or difference it would have made, giving up on the girl (continuing your analogy) a few days before her wedding day vs. a couple of hours before the ceremony in this case.
Not sure I'm sweating giving up on the return we would have gotten for Johnny's rights from one of the 4 teams that would instantly know they could have him for free (asset wise) in a week. Not sure what difference it made to the Flames in the grand scheme of things.
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Think of the draft as the engagement announcement on Facebook.
If it gets to that point, it’s time to give it up and move on.
Especially when a top-2 pick is on the table. I don’t care if it’s a weak draft - if we’d made that deal, Shane Wright would be at our development camp this week.
Now, we have no Gaudreau. We’re about to watch Tkachuk accept his qualifying offer and go to to UFA, because that’s what this team does.
We certainly will never be offered a top-2 pick for him again.
And we haven’t even gotten to the most valuable piece on this roster, Lindholm.
What could a 27 year old Selke-nominated 40G centre under contract for two full seasons at $4.8M fetch?
We’ll never know, because we’re the Calgary Flames, and our GM is a simp.