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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Accepting that there was only two options:
1. Keep Toffoli
2. Make this specific trade
Is a bit disingenuous. Conroy targeted what he wanted, which was a return that could help the team compete this season. It is just another example of a Calgary Flames pro scouting department having a bad read on a situation. This specific trade is bad for the Calgary Flames.
While Conroy is being praised by some for showing a patient approach with some players, he should be criticized for making an impatient poor trade on this one.
This trade makes even less sense when you look at the offensive system this year, which is no different than last year's. If they were actually making tangible changes to focus more on speed/skating, then they could have looked at Sharangovich as a step in that direction. There's no change in approach though, so this particular trade just strikes me as poor.
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Given the rest of the trade market at the time, it’s just as disingenuous to pretend there was something better out there.
Some of you are complaining about Sharangovich after 6 games and dismissing Suniev as part of the trade completely, while going on and on about how terrible it is to sign over 30 players and how much you want a rebuild. You want it all, or nothing… it’s actually hard to tell.
You can’t just trade players making $4M+ for draft picks. That’s not how it works. And if he held onto everyone going into the trade deadline, you’d complain about that, too. And he’s not going to be able to trade everyone on expiring contracts, so you’re going to complain about that, too.
It’d be nice if there was some specific standard the Flames were being held to, as opposed to “complain about everything.”