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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The Flames were still competitive when they signed Kadri. There is no debate there. It didn't work out, but suggesting they were no longer in their competitive window is just wrong.
Anyway, this thread is about the Verhaeghe contract, and my point was that Kadri's contract is, at worst, equivalent to Verhaeghe's (despite the rhetoric from some Flames fans)
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How can you justify that statement? We lost our two best players. We gained two unknowns in Weegar and Huberdeau. Yeah, both had performed alright elsewhere, but realistically no one could know if we were competitive or not. Certainly there were open questions about it. The opportunity was there to assess but we bet that we were still in the competitive window. We weren't, but didn't know until we had already made decisions as if we were.