Overrated or not, teams were offering good options for him. Glen waited and now a lot of potentials buyers are out due to trading first round picks and not wanting to give up their seconds and/or prospects. Will be interesting to see if Sather continues to fuck this up tomorrow.
Whatever they were, they were better today and yesterday than they will be tomorrow. Potential suitorsade other moves and ruled themselves out by making said moves. Also, other teams in the east got better while we stayed pat. If we can't get a top 2nd rounder plus for Cam then it makes no sense now to trade him and then we wait until the trade deadline and hope Cam continues to do well on his spot starts so we can get some value for him. If he stinks it up in even a couple of his spot starts then he loses a lot of value. Basically we played with fire, tried to be greedy and got burned.
Neither do you. Which is why I said whatever they were today and yesterday, they'll be worse tomorrow. Nice of you to ignore the logical reasoning in the rest of my post. Love that selective reading capability.
Judging by all the rumors out there that were somewhat legit sources not HF boards, we had opportunities. Plus, look at other moves that were made. Logical reasoning would lead one to come to the conclusion that we got greedy and blew s chance. I'm not saying we had a top 10 pick lined up, cuz that's ridiculous. But there were several deals made by teams that we were linked to that we could have done better. Unless Cam refused to go there then I don't know how we couldn't have moved him today unless Sather got too greedy.
I'm making the assumption based on the fact that those teams had been linked through sources to be in on Cam. I'm not pulling a Yandle for Lucic bs rumor out of my ass. These were legit teams that needed goaltending and were linked to us with Cam, and from what all the sources said we had several offers and apparently we whiffed on all of them. We could still get 2 2nds for Talbot tomorrow and that would be good for him, but I'd now be very surprised to get more than a low second or third for him and at that rate of return he shouldn't get moved. But then if he sucks next season we've blown a chance to get a decent return for him. My only concern really is that all these teams we were supposedly linked to made other moves and now it looks like nothing gets done for Cam, we don't get better, we basically get backed into a corner by Hags and his agent (and I'm not a fan of bringing Hagelin back; he's a good player but he's 100% a speed guy with very poor hands and finishing skills and those are two needs this team has, not more speed) and overpay to keep him and thereby lose out on really making us better and instead take two steps back by not filling the voids that need filling.
