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In a perfect world, it's be great to keep Iggy here forever. But we don't live in a perfect world. Iggy will leave for greener pastures next year, there is no way he will stay. His body language and words suggest he wants to win a cup, he's very non committal when asked whether he'll stick around. If the Flames ask him to waive for a contender, Iggy will waive, that will be his last gift to this franchise.

Even if all the Flames can get for him is a late first rounder! Then they need to do it. It's a deep draft and with the way the scouts have been working lately, you let them work.

You should be able to pick up another late first rounder for Kipper and see what you can get for guys like Tanguay, Stempniak, Stajan. Keep some veterans (like Glencross, Hudler, Wideman, Gio, and Cammy who you deal next year for pick or prospect) around cause I don't think it's healthy to gut the team completely, the young guys like Sven, Brodie and Backlund still need support.

But with a lottery pick, and two late first rounders in a deep draft, you can accelerate the rebuild on the fly. If you pick up a guy like Barkov or Monahn with the lottery pick and guys like Pétan or Gauthier withe the late first rounder, you've really set your future up well when you supplement them with guys like Sven, Gaudreau, Jankowski, etc.

In the offseason, you see if you can get some more value second tier ufas similar to Wideman and Hudler and integrate some more younger guys into your lineup next year.

This is what the team SHOULD do.