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Originally Posted by devo22
Toffoli scored 45 goals and 96 points in 119 games for the Flames ... I'd say that's a pretty healthy return of investment. 1st round picks are obviously great currency in this league, but it's not exactly a given that a Filip Mesar will ever have a season like Toffoli just had for the Flames.
You're talking about this as if it was a sunken cost, but we got 1.5 years of great service from Toffoli and then turned him into a younger forward in Sharangovich and a pretty exciting prospect in Suniev. So I still don't really get what you're so pissed about, this string of trades worked pretty well for the Flames.
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Conroy did a great salvage. The interesting thing about that, though, is fans were generally angry about it, it received quite a negative reaction even though it's the only good thing that happened out of this. He couldn't just recoup a first rounder though, and there's a reason he couldn't. Also can't do a direct compare with Mesar because BT artificially increased our rank in the short term, with no long term plan of sustaining it, leading us to current state. The pick would have been quite a bit higher.
We got more goals for a few games on an aging team fundamentally designed for the regular season only.