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Originally Posted by Rhett44
Enough with the no trade clauses. This organization has given them out like candy in the past and we need to stop.
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Do you not see the value NTC’s have for players?
If you think the Flames could ice a competitive team without them, good luck. Players would either ask for a lot more money, or they don’t sign. Pick your poison. Good players earn NTC’s, they’re not ‘handed out like candy’. Teams who don’t hand them out lose players for nothing (Alex Pietriangelo and St.Louis), both cardinal sin for GM’s in the eyes of some fans. Probably the same ones who complain about NTC’s. There’s a pattern there, btw.
The Flames, who are probably a mid-low tier in terms of attractiveness, don’t have much of a choice here if they want to avoid becoming the Montreal Expos and find them themselves as a glorified AHL team developing players only to lose them and never being able to sign a UFA of quality.