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Originally Posted by dino7c
there are like 3 people on the site (or on earth with truth truth serum for Oiler fans) who don't think this is a home run and I probably could have guess beforehand which posters
Any way you look at it
Flames are a better team today than yesterday
Flames have more assets today than yesterday
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It's why this trade is so awesome. I've voiced my concern around contract status and I really want these extension to get buttoned up (how cool would it be to have them announced tomorrow?), but this trade was big for today and it gave us a big piece in the future.
Treliving somehow brought in a player who was tied for 2nd in scoring in the league last year AND helped gain future/young assets. The entire thought process around basing the deal around futures for me was that there was no way we'd get a player as good as Chucky for *right now*...but then he went and did just that AND got futures AND also got a top pairing defenceman.
It's an impressive bit of work.