On the Calgary Flames …
- Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun: Flames GM Brad Treliving on the deadline day.
“It was a tight market — it was a grind to be perfectly honest,” said the Flames GM, by far the biggest winner amongst deadline sellers.
“The days of first round picks and multiple picks going out the door…that was not this deadline. To have a chance with that being a first round pick — and we have a chance because Dallas is an excellent team — was important. Giving us three seconds is key. We’re extremely happy.”
- Aaron Vickers of Flames.NHL: Flames GM Brad Treliving on the deadline day.
“It was busy. It’s like at LaGuardia right now at five o’clock on a Friday,” Treliving said.
“Maybe not as much in terms of deals getting done like in past years. There were lots of discussions. It was a different deadline. There were calls, but it wasn’t over the top. There were lots of discussions on things that may happen after the deadline, in the summer. It was busy, but it was a different kind of deadline.
“To me, it was a direct result of the financial landscape of the league. There’s some unknown about the cap, picks are becoming that much more valuable, young prospects are that much more valuable. It’s driven by the financial (landscape), to a certain extent. What’s the cap going to be? Moving money is difficult and the importance of those, the value, and the capital that those picks have, have never been more important. To wrestle some of those out of there, for people to put those in deals, it doesn’t happen as much. It’s become harder to get them.”