[Trade] Elias Lindholm + Noah Hanifin to Flames for D. Hamilton, Micheal Ferland, & Adam Fox

[Dion]

For all the flack that Treliving gets as the GM, this has to rate as one of the best trades he ever made.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

At this point the deal is Hanifin+Lindholm for Mads Sogaard and Noel Gunler

From an asset point of view that's where it is. And that's not spinning things because at the time the deal was made, it was pointed out that the deal had massive contractual advantages for the Flames.

They actually traded one of the 2nds to Ottawa for a 2nd (Jamieson Rees) and a 3rd (Anttoni Honka) instead of Mads Sogaard.

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Value to the Rangers, sure. But value to the Canes at the time of the Hamilton deal? If they were going to acquire Fox straight up on a "chance" they could sign him, I doubt they valued the chance the same the Rangers did a sure thing. I am saying, at the time of the Hamilton trade, how much value did he have to the Canes and Flames? Somewhere between zero and a 2nd + 3rd rounder being the high mark. I just doubt it was close to the high mark at that point. I could be wrong.

According to Friedman, the Islanders wanted Fox in the Hamonic trade.

They wanted a 1st, Fox, and another pick for Hamonic and settled for a 1st, 2nd, 2nd for Hamonic and a 4th.

So a year before this trade, we could say the Islanders valued Fox at at least at a 2nd round pick depending on what that other pick was when the Islanders were asking for.



I also think if Treliving could, he would have traded Fox directly to the Rangers himself for more value. But it appears Carolina wanted their shot at him to complete the deal.