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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.
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A little revisionist. Ruzicka had been settling in nicely in the top 9 at the centre position, and Jarnkrok played almost his entire career at wing.
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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.
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How is that a no-brainer? Kadri is a 32 year old who will have term and cap hit well past his expiry date - no one gives up a 1st round for that. Even if Monahan was done, he could have been LTIR'd. More importantly with us losing Tkachuk and Huberdeau, and this being the Connor Bedard draft season, there was no better opportunity to raise Monahan"s volume, if not to positive, at least to net neutral.
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The others sure, but they were all 3rds or later aside from the Lazar trade.
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Guys like Kylington (two thirds traded for a late second) Mangiapane(6th), Ruzicka (4th), Gaudreau (4th), Kulak, (4th), Ferland (5th), and even Fox (3rd) were drafted by the Flames with 3rds or later. Let's not pretend those picks are worthless.
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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.
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The Flames entered a rebuild in 2013 when they traded Iginla and Bouwmeester. Are you suggesting ownership was not on board? Or are you suggesting ownership legitimately thought the rebuild was officially over after Sean Monahan had a 60 point season while being completely out-classed by Getzlaf in the playoffs?