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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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Jarnkrok - The team was clearly a contender and fans were clamouring for Tre to bring this player in to bolster the team's center depth. This deadline pickup made perfect sense at the time that it was made.
Monahan - No brainer as it made it possible to bring in Kadri. No way to know if Monahan would be able to bounce back from his major surgeries.
The Hamilton trade eventually became Lindy & Hanifin so no complaints there.
The others sure, but they were all 3rds or later aside from the Lazar trade.
Again I'm not claiming that mistakes weren't made, but his work in the past 5 years has been a lot better than his work prior to that. Also we need to take into account that the direction to avoid rebuilding and keep the team in the playoffs every year is probably commanded from ownership.