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Originally Posted by home_sweet_dome
Turn your Flames goggles off and look at it from Montreal's perspective. They made 2 trades with the Flames in the same year. Net result for them is:
Monahan + Heineman + 2 1sts in, Toffoli out.
Monahan's contract has a cap hit that is $$2.125M more than Toffoli's.
Kadri isn't part of the equation for them and frankly the $2.125M cap hit doesn't come close to covering Kadri's cap hit anyways.
They took advantage of a GM overpaying for Toffoli in the 1st trade and desperately trying to create cap space for a free agent signing on the 2nd one and made out like bandits.
Heck Toffoli's only got 3 more points than Monny this year, let alone the 2 1st rounders!!
Whether you consider it as 2 separate wins or 1 combined massive win it really doesn't matter, huge W for them either way.
Again if the Flames did that you'd all call it a massive win.
Anyways there's no point trying to drill this simple logic into you guys anymore so i'm gonna drop it.
Sometimes i think the Flames fan base and inept organization really do deserve each other.
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So, how good is Filip Mesar going to be? I think you owe us a comprehensive analysis to support your claim of Montreal ‘fleecing’ the Flames.
Toffoli had over two full years left on his contract when the deal was made at a very reasonable cap hit with no trade protection moving forward as well. You’re basing you argument on what the Flames gave up in terms of assets and refuse to acknowledge the value in the assets they acquired. If the bottom falls out from the Flames this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if they could get a similar package for Toffoli to the one the gave up. Hell, depending on the market, they could maybe even get a better package. Toffoli has been good and I think there would be a few teams who would have strong interest.
You’re not making very good arguments. Mix in your refusal to acknowledge moving Monahan allowed the Flames to sign Kadri is wilfully obtuse.