The return is definitely underwhelming from what we’ve seen in the past. Not exactly on Conroy, but there is an element to that GM role that needs negotiation skills. We’ve been too nice accommodating and need to be a little more ruthless like Vegas is.
I also wonder if Hanifin just isn’t as good as everyone thinks. Many of our players to be honest. We’ve been a middling team a lot of years, inconsistent and JG and MT drove those up years. Our players just aren’t that good to command the haul we think they should get. Curious to see if Hanifin is a first or second pair in Vegas. We have to play our guys higher up the lineup because we don’t have the stars, thus we think these guys are worth top line players because they are in that role by default.
What I’d like to see, if the market is that weak, then we should also be the benefactor of that. In the search for a young U25 center, the market should continue to be soft and hopefully the Flames can get one without selling the farm.
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