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Originally Posted by Bingo
Possibly Fox?
You pass on a future Norris winner that you can trade for another asset for a player that likely doesn't play at all?
The next ten players taken after Fox are highlighted by the Rem Pitlick. That's it.
This literally makes zero sense.
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You keep trotting out this whole "future Norris Trophy winner" like it was a certainty. You also make it sound like Adam Fox was the principal player in the trade, and not the third asset of value departing from Calgary. Every team in the league passed on him twice and four teams passed on him three times. He was a lottery ticket, one that two teams had to pass along to the only recipient that could cash it in. The Flames had no idea what they were getting and the pick evolved into a player - a player who wanted nothing to do with the team as it would turn out. Maybe they go with the Canadian route and draft Victor Mete as an offensive defenseman prospect instead and still have a player in the mix? Not having Fox would likely not have had a significant impact on the trade of Hamilton for Lindholm and Hanifin. Treliving would have found a different way to make that work. Fox turned into something special, it was just never going to be with the Calgary Flames, and that's the bottom line.