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Originally Posted by Royle9
Your post is great, its factual with evidence and I appreciate it.
I will address this point however as it relates to my original post.
This was a hockey trade, they traded away Dougie *arguably* the better player at the time, but I wouldn't call Lindholm or Hanifin future bets, they were both established players in the league and 1 and 2 years younger than Hamilton.
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Hamilton was the clear best player in the deal 4 straight years of 42-50pts and was 25. Ferland was 27.
Lindholm was 23 and had yet to crack 20 goals or 50 pts. Hanifin was 21 literally coming off his ELC. The flames included the prospect but were getting a forward 4 years younger than the one they traded and a Dman 4 years younger than the one they traded not 1-2 years. Hamilton was a legit top pairing Dman on any team and Lindholm and Hanifin were not legit top 6/top 4 players. The Flames got both for under $5M per on 6 year deals because they were betting on the future growth which they got from both players. Hamilton predictably went and signed a max term deal at $9M when his contract expired and Fox found his way to the NYR like everyone assumed at the time of the deal.
I feel like the Tkachuk trade was far more a hockey deal with 2 100+ point players dealt for each other. The Flames bet on 2 former 5th overall picks the Hurricanes refused to give long term deals to.