Great article - sums things up very well. I wish I had read it before I made my last (very similar but nowhere near as thorough or as good) post in the trade thread!
One really good point was with respect to the risk of signing a Raanta or Grubrauer type. After acquiring Hiller and that falling off a cliff, and then acquiring Elliott and Johnson and even that didn't work, the Flames really couldn't risk signing an unknown (as far as being a starter).
With Smith, they know exactly what they are getting. Not elite goaltending, but solid goaltending for a couple years while they see what they have in Parsons and Gillies.
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