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Originally Posted by kehatch
Speaking for myself, if we trade Andersson next deadline for a substantially lower return then I will "complain."
That will trigger the predictable responses. Conroy can only get what the market supports. There is only so much value in an expiring contract for a guy having an off season. Debates on potential returns if we acted sooner are hypothetical and pointless. If the deals weren't there .....
The deals were obviously there. Especially for Andersson. Look at the amount of activity across the league. Conroy wasn't interested in selling.
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A substantially lower return than… what?
The silliest thing about virtually any trade is the resulting comments of “Flames could have beat that” or “Flames should have offered ____ for that return” and other comments along those lines.
Just because Carlo got what he did, doesn’t mean their same or better offer was ever on the table for Andersson. Just because Jankowski got moved for a 5th doesn’t mean anyone offered the same (or anything) for Rooney. That doesn’t mean Flames players are worth more or less than any of the players moved, but trades require alignment between two GMs. And different guys have different preferences and different targets and it’s a big assumption to think these returns are all interchangeable. And that’s ignoring things like players with NMC, NTC, cap space, etc.
Even if you were like some posters here and would have traded virtually any vet for any return, that still doesn’t mean you can find a partner. I just don’t see the point in making up or over-simplifying things to justify some negative outlook on how things went down.
“The deals were obviously there.” No, the deals were there for other players. They weren’t there for every player. That’s why there’s a ton of players that weren’t moved.