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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I agree with your post except I don’t see why you think the Flames are the only team that struggles to make a good trade. Conroy has obviously made good trades. And with these three, it’s a question of the limited amount of teams that need them, or can afford them, and the lack of quality assets those teams would be able to give up. They don’t have a lot of good prospects because they are good teams whose past good prospects have “made it” and now they pick a lot later in the draft. Dallas, Vegas, Colorado, Fla, Minnie - they don’t have a lot to offer.
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It's not that I think that the Flames are the only team that struggles, nor was it an attempt to say Conroy is bad at trades. My point is that other teams seem to navigate those same hurdles succesfuly. I just have a hard time with the fact that we traded Tanev for a 2nd + Grush, or Hanifin for a 1st + Miro, when next year a much worse D in Carlo got a 1st + Minten + 4th, and even Walman got a 1st back.
Now if it only happened the one year, then you could convince me it's only the market changing, or that Conroy was a new GM under a lot of pressure, and a looming deadline. However if the Flames were only offered something like a 2nd for Kadri, when a comparable in Nelson brought back a 1st + Ritchie last year, then it would reinforce my belief that it isn't just the market that's the culprit.