News Article: MAF Would Have Waived for Calgary

[KareemTrustfund]

You'd think JR would have been able to work something out with Calgary before they traded for Smith. Trading Fleury for a late round pick would have been better than letting Vegas take him.

 

[Vyruz Reaper]

At the end of the day, the best decision was taken. He goes to Vegas, we don't lose anyone else to the expansion draft and we didn't need to eat some cap like we would have in a trade.

And let's be honest, we probably don't repeat without him this year with Murray getting hurt before game 1 and the way he went into Washington and stole that series especially game 7!

And we won a cup

 

[Vujtek]

You'd think JR would have been able to work something out with Calgary before they traded for Smith. Trading Fleury for a late round pick would have been better than letting Vegas take him.

And then we would have lost Rust to Vegas...

Also sure they could have worked out something but by the time Calgary came to goalie market (after Elliott exploded in the playoffs) there was already a deal with the Vegas for Fleury.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Oh but it will be fun to see the Flames continue to have goalie issues. I mean they have Smith and Lack, Lack was horrendous last year, like incredibly bad.

Lol, GMBT and GMGM are both clowns. One trades for a terrible goalie, the other guy drafts a solid goalie but ***** the bed defensively.

 

[billybudd]

Rust for the Blue Jackets? I think you mean Vegas but maybe I'm confused.

I totally agree though. It worked out as best as it could and I'm happy to look like an idiot whining about it all year.

Jackets tried to bribe Vegas to take Rust so they could trade for him. Presumably, without the deal in place for them to take Flower, that's exactly what McPhee does.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Jackets tried to bribe Vegas to take Rust so they could trade for him. Presumably, without the deal in place for them to take Flower, that's exactly what McPhee does.

Wait, is this legit?

Columbus seriously tried to do that?

 

[HandshakeLine]

I'm not surprised, considering that the NHL set up the rules of the expansion draft to encourage something like that. McPhee just kinda... screwed it up.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Oh but it will be fun to see the Flames continue to have goalie issues. I mean they have Smith and Lack, Lack was horrendous last year, like incredibly bad.

Lol, GMBT and GMGM are both clowns. One trades for a terrible goalie, the other guy drafts a solid goalie but ***** the bed defensively.

If Calgary really wants Fleury they can likely have him at the deadline, and seeing how the expansion went, for next to nothing.

 

[Corvidae]

Jackets tried to bribe Vegas to take Rust so they could trade for him. Presumably, without the deal in place for them to take Flower, that's exactly what McPhee does.

Wait, is this legit?

Columbus seriously tried to do that?

Yeah I don't know where this is coming from. Anyone know the original source? That's a pretty weird thing to have somehow gone public.

 

[Shady Machine]

Jackets tried to bribe Vegas to take Rust so they could trade for him. Presumably, without the deal in place for them to take Flower, that's exactly what McPhee does.

Ohh I didn't hear that. Interesting.

 

[billybudd]

Yeah I don't know where this is coming from. Anyone know the original source? That's a pretty weird thing to have somehow gone public.

It was from one of the National guys...I think at TSN (but it might have been Kevin Allen)...but I can't find it now.

 

[Corvidae]

It was from one of the National guys...I think at TSN (but it might have been Kevin Allen)...but I can't find it now.

Well I Googled "Bryan Rust Columbus" and found an obit for a Bryan Rust in Columbus Georgia and got sad. If you add "Vegas" to that you get this post, which claims Mark Madden as the source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/penguins/c...rust_expansion_story/?st=j7j9u016&sh=4fe31ca7

I'm wondering if Allen (or whoever) picked it up from him or vice versa.

 

[billybudd]

I'm wondering if Allen (or whoever) picked it up from him or vice versa.

Maybe it was something like that. I'm listening to Madden right now for the first time since the playoffs ended, so I didn't get it from him (and I don't reddit).

 

[Pens1566]

Won cup. Don't care what else "might have been".

 

[Honour Over Glory]

If Calgary really wants Fleury they can likely have him at the deadline, and seeing how the expansion went, for next to nothing.

That's if you are assuming MAF doesn't play well in his new role as a leader on an unknown team. Fleury, if he plays very well and Smith just tanks as I feel like he will (same with Bishop actually, but that one is an even funnier situation)...then Fleury won't be had for peanuts.

He's then had a solid playoffs and played well for a new team in its first year. That raises his value whether people want to be petty towards him or not.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

That's if you are assuming MAF doesn't play well in his new role as a leader on an unknown team. Fleury, if he plays very well and Smith just tanks as I feel like he will (same with Bishop actually, but that one is an even funnier situation)...then Fleury won't be had for peanuts.

He's then had a solid playoffs and played well for a new team in its first year. That raises his value whether people want to be petty towards him or not.

Mine was more a comment on Vegas' GM rather than the Flower. I have been clear over the years that I thought that Fleury, while far from perfect, got a bad rap here and until better came along in Murray, MAF was a better option than what was out there, and said so to many who wanted him jettisoned despite having no replacement.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Mine was more a comment on Vegas' GM rather than the Flower. I have been clear over the years that I thought that Fleury, while far from perfect, got a bad rap here and until better came along in Murray, MAF was a better option than what was out there, and said so to many who wanted him jettisoned despite having no replacement.

Jaded gets it.

 

[ncm7772]

Who cares about Cups when you can have more assets!!

It's funny because some people seem to think that.

Cool to theorize what would've happened with Calgary, but as others have said, the way Fleury went out was pretty sweet.