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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Why are we trading Huberdeau we got lucky once that a player of equal calibre was available you trade him and the skill on this team is flushed down the toilet you aren't getting equal value back.
You don't put to 115 points by mistake. It's not like he was riding McDavid or Gretzky this is a legitimate superstar.
Tkachuk and Gaudreau took less money to leave. Lindholm and Backlund might be next.
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This.
Huberdeau has played a high skill, east/west cross ice possession game his entire career in Florida, and they deployed a system & powerplay to fit his strengths.
Coming to Calgary he was forced into Daryl’s north/south, no creativity, high volume perimeter shooting system. Played 2nd PP for the most part and everything was through Toffoli in terms of possession in the zone.
Talk about a completely terrible utilization.
This isn’t even accounting for his mind boggling extended look with Kadri & Lucic.
This is how you take a 115 pts last year and PPG career player and destroy his confidence, asked to play a boring bland brand of perimeter low quality hockey, and boy did it show. In fact people put this blame of Huberdeau and not the coach which is funny. Oh.. and put him at RW lol woof.
Backs and Lindholm are all but gone based on those exit interviews. The flames would be stupid to try and hold onto these assets at the draft and risk getting nothing. Yea at the deadline they could, but would be nice to build a fresh team and start the season with people who want to win in Calgary.