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Todd Cordell
For me it's the Brian Elliott trade for Calgary and it's not even close.
Over the last three seasons Elliott is 6th among goaltenders (minimum 5,000 minutes) with a .930 save percentage at 5 v 5.
In that span he ranks higher than Ben Bishop, Marc-Andre Fleury, Semyon Varlamov and all the goaltenders the Flames have been linked to.
Considering all Calgary gave up was a 2nd (plus a conditional 3rd if he re-signs) this seems like an absolute steal for the Flames.
John Jaeckel
I liked the Elliott deal for Calgary.
There may have been a couple of marginally better goalies available, but Elliott has shown he can do the job of a #1, and the price was low both in terms of return to St. Louis and cap hit—especially as compared to what Calgary would have had to give up for others.
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