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Originally Posted by Igottago
You would just end up tripling down on a bad investment by making other bad investments. The likely scenario is you still end up with a bad/mediocre team and you waste some trading opportunities that are better spent looking to the real future. Trading assets to help this guy get going is the worst possible thing the Flames could do. He's pretty much a sunk cost at this point (which is crazy to say in year 1 of his deal). You ride it out until there's some sort of option to unload him. Huberdeau should in no way dictate the overall future direction of this team.
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Overpaying Duclair or another play they think would get him on a two year contract would be fine. Definitely don't spend assets on doing it