There's an obvious sweet spot for making the best deal possible. You want to own the market when you can and then extract as much based on the cornering of the market. The Flames owned the market a month to six weeks ago. Not many other teams in sell mode with the quality of talent the Flames had to move. You leverage that and get the best deal before other assets come on the market and give teams other options.
I think that is where Rhett is coming from. The delay in making a deal or accepting a deal has allowed other assets to reach the market and become options. That has changed the market and could make Kadri untradeable at this point, simply because there are other options out there come without the long-term commitment.
So I can understand the frustration and where he's coming from. The team ####ed around with trying to frame what the rebiggle was and the indecisiveness has probably hurt their potential to extricate maximum value. We'll see, but I can understand the frustration hanging out there as we don't trade away players that don't matter in the long run and are only contributing to meaningless wins which hurt our draft position.
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