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Originally Posted by Mathgod
The only "pick bleeding" I can think of is trading to get Hamonic and Elliott. In hindsight those were mistakes, but that's going back 5-6 years.
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A 2nd for Lazar
A 2nd and a 3rd for Jarnkrok
A 1st to offload monahan
A 3rd for Smith
A 4th for Fantenberg
A 3rd for Gustaffsson
A 4th for Forbort
A 1st and two seconds for Hamilton, when Barzal, Connor, Chabot were all available at that first alone. More importantly, this was before a season the Flames should have been conservative as it was Auston Matthews' draft season, Sam Bennett's rookie season, and the team was in only year 3 of a rebuild, witj the previous year even hurting their draft position.
It's not just draft picks though. Tre also bled cap space and dollars with more buyouts than any of his predecessors. This from a guy who wouldn't pay an extra 500k to 1M to sign a star like Gaudreau to an 8 year deal ehen he was an RFA. The kind of money he throws at guys like Kevin Rooney who no sane person would offer a 1 way to.