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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
To be fair tho, teams that acquire high prized deadline players are always graded well by these writers. A) Team is usually good already. B) This piece will supposedly put them over the top.
The story writes itself. But the truth is you won't be able to judge this trade for a while and honestly- what DAL is receiving and their success (or not) with Tanev isn't really tied to whether the deal was good for the Flames without knowing any of the other offers on the table.
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Yeah, it's more of "how'd the teams 'do' given the entire situation and options out there" then the actual projection on his the magic beans turn out 5 years from now (or if those picks are traded again before that).
Same writers for the Score gave the Flames a B for the Kuzmenko deal.
I think part of the D grade is for the fact that Flames didn't wait for or push the price up by waiting another week...as I've said a few times, I think Dallas would still be there in a week looking at Tanev just as seriously.