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Originally Posted by TOfan
LOL. This from the guy who one year ago thought the Flames should get a first round pick for each of Tanev, Hanifin, Zadorov, Lindholm, Toffoli, and Backlund. As if there were 6 teams willing to give up there first round picks and the only players they would have been interested in doing so played for the Flames.
What were the other offers on Markstrom? What were the extenuating circumstances?
The Flames don’t get to unilaterally make up the value of their players.
The Flames did well here and none of us, or 99.8% truly know what the Flames could have got now or prior to.
…stop pretending.
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Well, to be fair:
Tanev - a 1st round pick was offered
Hanifin - got a 1st
Lindholm - got a 1st
Zadorov - don't know if I ever thought we'd get a 1st for him.
Toffoli - 100% expected a 1st.
Backlund - we re-signed
None of us know what the other offers were. I've been pretty clear in this thread, I'm good with the return - it was specifically the $4M'ish in retention that I thought might have been a determining factor somewhere along the way.
34 year old returns a 1st? I'm happy with that. $4M retention? I guess that's where Bahl balances it a bit.