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Originally Posted by Poe969
Ask everyone on the team and every Flames fan in the world: would you rather have the Flames win the Stanley Cup next year or have Gio and Backlund on the roster knowing you won't win the Cup?
People put winning ahead of hurt feelings.
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Players generally do too, but there's hurt feelings, and then there's feeling like you screwed a guy. When the Flames traded Ference after he signed a 3 year extension, before it had even come into effect, what do you think that did in the locker room? How many players that heard about that moved the Flames down their list of teams they would want to play for? Sometimes a move that makes you better on paper hurts your organization overall.