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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Really? A 40 goal scorer? If Kuzmenko were a 40 goal scorer the Canucks wouldn't have dealt him. Kuzmenko was a salary dump. Everyone has been talking about it for weeks and Vancouver made no qualms about saying he would be shipped out to balance salaries. So this is no big coup for the Flames. They ate a contract and player that Vancouver didn't want and the Flames were compensated with one of the prospects or picks. It's a good futures package but hardly the haul suggested from some of the other teams. We should be happy with it and hope Lindholm goes to Vancouver and continues his uninspired play, dragging the Canucks back into a wild card slot, for the best 1st possible, but helping them lose in the conference finals and securing that third round pick.
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It's pretty close to the return suggested in all those polls if not more depending on people's view of Brz.
If you look a how they have played and produced in their draft+1 I'm not sure there is a huge difference between a guy like Calum Ritchie and him TBH.
Kuzmenko isn't as good as maybe a guy like Trent Frederic would have been based on this years okay but higher upside offensively for sure ...and you also have the other prospect and a 4th on top of it.
This is very comparable to all the trade returns proposed in the thread.