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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
My questions with stuff like this are:
- who says they didn’t explore moving Toffoli/Backlund?
- why was this trade deadline (where teams generally gear up for the playoffs, less so for the next season) so important, especially given the lack of forwards with term moved?
- why wouldn’t guys like Toffoli/Backlund have more value to teams building for next year in the offseason, or more value to teams building for the playoffs next TD as expiring contracts?
I think it’s easy to say “they should’ve done _____” but I haven’t seen many reasons why it had to be now vs later nor any evidence they didn’t try to do anything.
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Yeah the arm chair complaints without knowing what was offered land hollow.
Throw an "if" in there.
If the Flames were offered 4 first round picks for Toffoli and said no they're idiots!
I can get on board with that.
But they likely valued the players that would return 1sts (if they were even available) more than drafting 28th and waiting four years for a 50% bet.