Curufinwe
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Trading for Laughton is a total loser move when Nelson is 10x the player and cost a bit more. I understand the cap and contract differences, but regardless, the difference on the ice between the two is so large, that settling for Laughton is just accepting mediocrity.
Laughton will feel right at home there.
TML doesn't have anyone in their system on Ritchie's level; Cowan is generally 10-20 slots behind him
Obviously there's a delta in the returns, but to get the vastly superior player, I think Toronto had the assets to get it done. Cowan and Ritchie are real close and I'd bet a decent amount of teams have Cowan ranked in front.Nelson cost quite a bit more, if the rankings I'm seeing for Calum Ritchie are correct. TML doesn't have anyone in their system on Ritchie's level; Cowan is generally 10-20 slots behind him, and Grebenkin doesn't even appear on most lists. Also the pick's a year earlier, which most teams not run by doofs with oranges for brains seem to think has value.
Giroux wasn’t the priority for Florida. He wasn’t really even a target.Why is it the Flyers always get the later 1st? Boston got Toronto’s 2026 1st. The Flyers got the 2027 1st. Is the 2027 draft that much better Flahr already has it circled? It happened with the Giroux trade too, although they traded that 2 year delayed pick to Edmonton for a 2025 one because this is the class to end all classes.
I’d take Cowan over Ritchie personally. Even if someone wouldn’t, Ritchie isn’t exactly a high ceiling player.
Giroux wasn’t the priority for Florida. He wasn’t really even a target.
So quick question:
Why is Stankoven a rookie when he's played 24 career games but Shane Wright isn't when he played 16?
He had a one-team list best to my knowledge. That was the reporting at the time. Panthers didn’t view him as a need the way they did Chiarot. Giroux also was the one who wanted to get to 1000 games, remember he took the next game off before the trade was done.Wasn’t a target? He was traded there! He had a known 2 team trade list, and they traded Tippett+1st for him. That’s absurd. It was superstar Ben Chiarot who was traded for the other pick 3 days earlier, when the Flyers were waiting for his 1000th game. That trade didn’t magically materialize.
We don’t really have to stretch it to say they have a fetish for trading for future 1sts. “Optionality” and all.
Farabee scores the only goal in a 1-0 Flames win