Quoting: new_jack_nino
Weegar is a great dman and would be a perfect fit for Toronto but his contract probably won’t age well. Pelletier has pedigree but is still unproven. Calgary is getting back a ppg 40g scorer in his prime and also a guy who is more likely than other stars to resign.
Losing Lindholm makes you worse in the short term unless Wright pops immediately but you’ve added 2 near ppg forwards and a future 1C. Defense is still solid but significantly younger. Not sure how the future is worse. You’ve traded Lindholm (28), Backlund (34), Toffolli (31), Weegar (29) for Wright (19), Nylander (27), Konecy (26), Boqvist (22) at the cost of Pelletier and a first. If ownership is dictating that Flames remain competitive taking a small step back but getting much younger and adding more upside is a decent plan.
Weegar's contract is excellent, Calgary will get at minimum 5 good years out of that deal, probably more as the cap will be over 100M by then. He is also unlike Nylander, already signed to a deal making him the more valuable asset alone. You are a Carolina fan you should understand exactly how this feels with all Pesce for Nylander threads on here except Weegar is much closer to Slavin than he is to Pesce. Also the odds of him re-signing are not remotely as high as you seem to think they are, he was born in Calgary but didn't even live there until he was 3. He has pretty much zero connection to the city at all.
Again the Lindholm for Wright trade is going to be declined by Seattle, it's really not different from the Nylander trade. Players 1 year from UFA have value but not that much value. Also your logic is super flawed, you mention how loosing Lindholm makes the team worse but all the players you added to the team (Roslovic, Nylander, Konecny) are UFA's within the next 2 years and in their prime. Why would they ever wait around for the team to "maybe get there eventually" when they can go to a team with a much higher chance of success now?
Pelletier, Dube, 16th OA in a stacked draft, and a 2nd. That's a lot of futures under lots of team control to loose. And going back to my previous point it only emphasizes it more. If anything youve built the perfect recipe to give Montreal the best possible pick they can get from the Monahan trade