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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I had to review the conditions again because of how convoluted they are. If I’m reading it correctly there are 2 likely outcomes right now:
1) Flames and Florida both finish above the bottom 10 teams, Montreal gets the better of the 2 picks which will end up being Calgarys (more than likely)
2) Flames finish in the bottom 10 and Florida finishes above the bottom 10, Montreal gets Floridas pick.
That is a very poor management decision. You’re betting on your team to be bad and if/when your team exceeds expectations you’re punished by having a worse draft pick. I don’t know how much NHL players look at GMs actions but if that was something my boss did I would be deflated and frustrated.
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I look at it as Treliving protecting the pick so they didn’t lose a top 10 pick. Without the conditions, this pick would just be going to Montreal no matter where they finish.
It’s giving up a first rounder that chaps me in the first place. It would have been nice if he could have just negotiated that the lesser of the two picks goes to Montreal but unfortunately he had a fixation on Kadri.
It’s weird on one hand you can say Montreal had him over a barrel because no teams had cap space. Yet somehow Kadri was still unsigned so the same logic should have applied to that negotiation.