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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You would hope CP will learn a lesson from this UFA sell-off. That 95 per cent of rumoured deals are wildly unrealistic speculation. The NHL market is clinical and calculating, and GMs can’t use bargaining skillz to extract more assets from other teams. And top prospects are almost never traded anymore unless it’s for another top prospect.
But who are we kidding. It will happen against next season. Fans will speculate about turning Mangiapane into a 1st and one of a team’s better prospects. That speculation will transform into a rumoured deal. Posters who suggest realistic returns will be ridiculed and dogpiled. And when Mangiapane ends up returning a 2nd and a 4th, people will complain that Conroy should have traded harder.
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Pretty much nailed it.
People are working themselves over a lather over this and the funny part is that it has nothing to do with how Conroy is performing and everything to do with them struggling to cope with the gap between how they believe things should be and how things actually are.
The conditions are fine. Anyone complaining about the conditions at this point is outing themselves as someone who doesn’t have a clue. They’re incredibly simple, and only serve to benefit the Flames as time goes on.
The return otherwise? It is what it is. If you believe it’s underwhelming, you read too much CP and worked yourselves up over fever dreams of top prospects and multiple 1sts (I did too, nothing wrong with that, but you just have to accept that it sucks when it turns out your expectations were unreasonable instead of crying about it being someone else’s fault). As multiple posters have shared already, when you actually compare this trade to others of a similar situation (top 3 D, UFA, etc) it’s impossible to complain about.
The reason people are upset is because they convinced themselves this would somehow be different than every other trade like this, and it wasn’t. Cliff’s right, it should be a lesson on measured expectations, but the same people are going to get worked up over fantasy trades next time, too.