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Originally Posted by psyang
Regarding the alleged Boston deal - could Conroy have signed Ras to 9.5x8, then retained 2M to make it work? Would those wanting the Boston deal have been ok with a move like that?
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Andersson wants to go to free agency. It doesn't matter what Boston, Calgary or Vegas or whoever else want to do. He has the right to explore and maximize his last pro contract and not do the team or anyone a solid. It seemed pretty clear to me that he was extremely unlikely to extend from the beginning of this saga a year ago. You have to have the entire Flames franchise dialed into not letting this happen and moving guys that are unlikely to resign way ahead of time.
If Flames ownership would stop messing around and worrying about squeaking into the playoffs once every 3 years as the bar for success, Conroy might actually be able to make another hockey trade for someone with contractual value remaining again.
I'm not paying more than rental prices for guys like Andersson if they aren't under contract if I'm a GM of another team, so what is Conroy really supposed to do? He got a pretty good deadline return for a rental. Move on and hope the team slides the rest of the way to improve the lottery odds.