Yeah, no trades happened at the draft. The trades all happened starting the month before the TDL and pretty much wrapping up the week before the draft. At that point the flames had just barely hired conroy and the rumors were that he was re-engaging on signing everyone.
It was too late. I am not criticizing the team for not doinng anything at the draft, i'm criticizing upper management and ownership for continuously waiting far too long to make decisions relevant to the future of the franchise.
IMHO I think we would have seen a trade if Conroy could have been working for 2-3 extra weeks, but instead we did a GM search with stunning candidates like Dave Nonis even though we all knew what the result would be.
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