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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I don’t buy the notion that a half-dozen people in Flames management and scouting were all bad at their jobs. I expect they had a pretty good handle on what kind of player Huberdeau is and his limitations.
They didn’t sign Huberdeau because they believed he was something that he isn’t. They signed him because after the departures of Gaudreau and Tkachuk, the Flames were in jeopardy of being regarded as a train-wreck of a franchise. Media all over North America were asking what was wrong with Calgary and why nobody wanted to play there. Signing Huberdeau (who had just finished 3rd in league scoring) and Kadri (who was the biggest fish in the UFA pond that summer) was about changing the narrative that the Flames were a sad-sack, bottom-tier franchise.
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Instead they get to be labelled as the city where NHL careers go to die