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Originally Posted by TOfan
What do you mean ‘waited too long’?
What were the offers in December, or earlier, for Coleman or Kadri? I’ll go out on a limb and say you don’t know.
Look, this is no different than any other year. NHL teams wait. They wait until they know where their team is and what the market is. Most competent GM’s would do no different. Why would, for example, Colorado jump the gun and trade for Kadri early in the season? Now, they have options. Nor would it have served the Flames well to fire sale their assets for better lottery odds.
These complaints are tired and lazy. Especially seeing as there is still a week before the deadline.
What is classic is posters on CP getting all whiny about something that hasn’t happened yet.
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I think it's pretty easy to see where Rhett is coming from. Does he know the exact offers? No, but he can still draw a parallel to the last Cs dealt. Last year Kadri was having a better season than Nelson. Nelson got a 1st + Ritchie, and got extended for $7.5M x 3 in a contract very similar to Kadri's.
For the first couple of months of the season Kadri was playing with a lot more energy, and was the only C name in the rumor mill. Right now after his cold streak and largely disinterested play in January, the insiders are saying the Flames would need to retain in order to get anything back, which makes it seem as though the Kadri's stock has depreciated considerably.