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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It's not smart to give it up for a 33 year old rental either.
Kind of feels like Avs just really wanted a veteran center and were willing to pay any price.
I'd be shocked if they didn't value Kadri more or at least the same as Nelson.
The complaint is it doesn't sound like Conroy even engaged on the chats enough to potentially figure out if the deal was on the table because he wants to see this season through.
I trust Royle9 as an insider and it sounds like the Avs really wanted Kadri but the Flames weren't really engaging on talks so the Avs moved on.
My gut feeling on this is that Conroy's mindset is "we can see out this season, and the offers will still be there in the summer" and IMO that's a mistake.
In 22-23 the teams had a trade war, made a bunch of overpayments and what it led to was a really soft market in the summer when the Flames were trying to move Toffoli, Lindholm, Hanifin, etc.
Don't make the same mistake here just because you're battling for a playoff spot. Asset management is everything and right now it's a sellers market. You need to be willing to listen and engage on any discussion, playoffs be damned.
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come on now, nobody here really knows the full story...you also aren't gonna convince me Kadri has equal value with that contract. If the players are even the contract hurts Kadri.