Thinking more about it, let's say the Flames don't make the playoffs. How does this move prevent them from rebuilding? It doesn't. They can still sell the vets at the deadline anyways, and now have R O R as a building block on the team.
The only question becomes, what is going to be better. Our would be draft pick, or ROR?
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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