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Originally Posted by Royle9
Real examples please, PREMIUM assets traded for future assets.
The Hamilton Trade ended up being a good one, but it wasn't to "re-build" it was simply a hockey trade 2 for 2 (and a great one at that) though Fox screwing us over at the time of still stings.
I'm talking trades where we sold off a premium asset and acquired A+ prospects and picks in return.
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I don’t know how you discount the Hamilton trade. The Flames traded the player who was clearly the best player in the deal, a pending UFA, and a rapidly developing prospect who wasn’t going to sign here for a 23 and 21 year old RFA who were both top 5 picks and had not fully developed. Rare that a team would trade 2 former top 5 picks before either is 24/25 years old. The Flames sold off a highly coveted 25 year old point producing, analytics darling, big, mobile Dman to get these 2 who hadn’t lived up to the hype of being top 5 picks. In Calgary Lindholm has been a top line player every year and number 1 center over the past couple years and Hanifin a reliable top pairing Dman who found some offensive upside last year.