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Originally Posted by Housley4Prez
Anyone who thinks he's a 3/4 defenseman who has proved himself. It could also be said that he and his agent also are overrating him. But anyone who thinks this is a major loss, is overrating him.
He was a 5/6 at best, and a 6/7 more realistically at worst.
By eating up $2.5AAV for two years, and playing 33 games. By paying lip service that he would re-sign and wanted to stay in Calgary, when if he was more forthcoming like Tkachuk, we could've tried to flip him at the deadline.
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These two positions feel inconsistent with each other. If he's just an unreliable 6/7 defenceman, what on earth would the Flames have been able to flip him for at the trade deadline? A 6th round pick maybe? That seems like an awfully low threshold for a "screw job".
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