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Old 05-25-2023, 09:41 AM   #15444
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Originally Posted by Vinny01 View Post
In hindsight you make the Carolina deal. Necas+ futures would have been a far better return for the Flames. They don’t make that deal and go into the season thinking they will flip Huberdeau and Weegar as rentals. They made that deal to win right away and signed those guys to avoid the same situation this summer.

The way Huberdeau and Weegar played until the deadline leads me to believe the only way they were getting 1st rounders was if they were conditional and no top prospects are coming back.

So 3 late 1sts and some prospects who might play some games or maybe not is a piss poor return for an elite superstar unicorn.
It's all speculative and hindsight, but they could have offered Huberdeau a more reasonable contract and if he refused they could have flipped him for a haul before he even played 1 game for the Flames.

Flames were too busy trying to save face at the time though.

But yeah, I'm not implying there wasn't a better deal on the table. Just that the deal itself that was made wasn't terrible. The signing is what will continue to hurt IMO

edit: At the end, didn't Tkachuk only give the Flames one option to be traded to (Florida)? Or was that not true?

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