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To me solid means .ok..fair .. I suspect were looking at a return slightly above Tanev, but not as good as Lindholm.. he SHOULD be a better return than Lindholm

If that is Actually the offer then that would be solid for sure .

Oh totally in the end he won't trade him to one of his team's just to be good to the player .. it will be because they had the best offer .. just the other offers are being pushed down ..

How bought in does Lindholm look in VCR right now? I only partially blame Hanifin.. his agent makes more money if he gets the 8th year Think.. how much do you think Alan Walsh works to get his clients to Vegas these days ? You get on an agents bad side and suddenly negotiations go bad .. free agents are steered away from your team .. and Brisson carries a lot of clout

It becomes an issue when the non wanted teams are now only offering you late rounders and scrub prospects because the agent has soured them on making an offer thats better than the preferred teams offer ..and they are all teams that have nothing to give .. If you are a non preferred team..not only are you getting a player that 💯 will not sign with you . You're getting with no internet in playing For you.. you wanna go to war with that guy ? Say hello to 3rd rounders and B prospects Im hoping Connie finds a way to put these preferred teams (all Atlantic div teams) against each other playing keep away , or , telling you now, we will hear the return and say WTF.. because you can guarantee it will have been the best offer he takes

or implies that the next negotiation with another of his clients might not go so well ....

Man this is getting ugly...

I'm suddenly really intrigued ..to see how this turns out . If you can get the podcast from today for the flames talk on 960, with Frank seravilli.. they go to town on him and his agent .. never realized his agent is Pat Brisson.. probabaly the agent with the biggest NHL portfolio.. it there's a slimy trick to be played ..he knows it .. Conny is in a dogfight

too bad we cant bring Point home lol

FWIW---just listened to FS on Flames talk .. debunks that any extension has been agreed to ..says TB has not ( to the best of his knowledge ) had permission to even speak with Hanifin yet -- and was actually ripping both he and his agent over the fact they are attempting to handcuff and direct traffic .. says like I said , you will go where we send you thats best for the Flames return which , even tho its Frank.. makes sense-- typically the deal is agreed to .. THEN they get permission to speak to the agent/ player ... not the other way around ..

I'll say I'm intrigued to see how they pull something out of nothing ..if its weak then you know they were handcuffed by the agent

I've actually heard good things on him , Id be ok with him IN the deal ....

Right ? lets find how good Dansk really is too... teach Hubie and Kuzmenko how to kill penalties at the same time

TBH, the last trade made me envision a future pair of Grushnikov and that Brz kid from the Vancouver trade .. good offset of top offense and top defense ..much like a Tanev / Kyllington pair

cool..l saw him on waivers and thought he might make some sense actually was just wondering too how Psyk was doing in the A.. he might be close to a callup option too

So did Ruff ..LOL

Travis Green interim coach in jersey .. this is gonna be along annoying week for Markstrom rumor's again now

Here is an awesome example of context .. People post seravilli says" Maloney and owners nixed the deal " Here even out of his own mouth is the piece they left out .." didnt like the return for having to retain " ..suddenly a whole different context than the clickbait we read.. even I agree with that..retention has a price

but they also need to stop pulling the goalie with 5 min left , down 3 ..and forgetting to even put the 6th man on the ice

Ruff Fired Today ... ya , didnt see that coming LOL..especially after last night

If it makes a difference , early reviews on the D Kid have been great .. coach said he's trending to a solid #2 / #3 dman .. hits.. great skater -- excellent defender.. still learning the system but hope to see him on PK soon we essentially took 2 2nds instead of a late first and Ceci..

Gotta agree.. makes no sense -- ..not with the timeline etc . Normally I like Frank , but in this case he seems to want to stir things up somehow In terms of owners , future or past My thinking is there are worse out there .. Some are cheap , some want too much control etc.. we have one that lets the Flames spend the max.. lets Hockey people make the decisions for the most part .. We likely lose the team years ago if not for him.. If he wants a bit of say over how HIS money gets spent , I really have no problem with that. Its not like he's cheap People were upset he wasn't at the retirement ceremony .. I say so what. He's not public, never has been .. but players always say they speak to him one on one ..

sorry yes you are correct ! they could have picked from Sam Gagner or Karl Alzner lol

I actually always get a kick out of the reply being " but look at Chicago ".. well ok lets look at it - a HOF D man in the 2nd round - win a lottery to move up from #5 to #1 and get Patrick Kane ( could have just as easily ended up with Phil Kessel) - pick 3rd and get Toewes, (and #1 busted that year ) - first cup involved a hot goalie that was never good again after that, the usual and acceptable maintain process .. move picks for rentals etc .. that just normal . and when the window slams shut you start over .. all fair too much luck involved to use as a blueprint this could just as easily gone the Buffalo or Edm route

No but Daryl once made the most brutally honest statement .. if you want to be a contender.. first you must be a perennial playoff team .. then you take the next step.. you don't just add players and say "ok time to win now".. that starts now .. playoffs are always the goal .. until they're just expected .. the only difference is that starts in the room.. you dont add players just to make the playoffs .. you add when you want that next level