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Originally Posted by Locke
Conversely I dont buy any of it.
An NHL job is not a career, its an opportunity, and you make of it what you can.
When you talk about 'being close to home' its the same as NHLers that complain about the weather.
What they're doing is choosing a subject that can't be disputed. They're not blaming the Team or the Organization or the City they just 'have to be close to home!'
Awww....thats so sweet? Who can blame them?
Um. Everyone. Because its nonsense.
Hanifin wanted to go to Boston or Tampa to 'be close to home.' Well. Now he's in Vegas.
He absolutely screwed the Flames by publicly announcing his preferred destinations because those destinations are barren of assets and so any other destination knows they're probably getting a rental and as such the price goes down.
If he wanted to be 'honourable' he'd have submitted his 8-team list and then he and his Agent would STFU until the deal was done and then when he's a Free Agent in the Summer they can say whatever they want.
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I don't buy what you're selling here. I have nothing against a team asking the Flames if they can negotiate a contract extension with Hanifin, then approach his agent, and his agent telling said team that Hanifin isn't interested in an extension right now/ever.
Hanifin didn't screw anyone over, because any GM trading for Hanifin would like to know where Hanifin stands on a contract extension, in terms of money and term. Especially now that you can't add conditional picks based on a player extending. Obviously, Conroy didn't have to allow that, but that increases the risk of signing Hanifin for an acquiring team, and consequently reduces the return for the Flames.
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As for the return itself, I think it's a little light. I think it's a 2nd/3rd short of the value D like Orlov, and Lindholm had over the last couple of years. IMO we got slightly more than for Hanifin than MTL got for Chiarot(2023 1st, 2022 4th, and a prospect(former 3rd)), and Hanifin is the far superior D. Hopefully Miromanov turns into a gem, but he's only a year younger than Hanifin, with 30 NHL GP.