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Old 04-03-2013, 07:48 PM   #272
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe View Post
Some of the takes on what Feaster said is really rich.

Does anyone literally believe that the next moves the Flames will be making is:

St. Louis 1st round draft pick + Pittsburgh's 1st round draft pick to St. Louis for Bouwmeester.

Re-sign Jarome for 4 years at 7 million.

Trade Calgary's 1st round pick for a 34 or so 2nd line center reclamation project

This organization is rebuilding. Not hard to see. Do they want to mandate: "We are trying to draft #1 next year! huh huh huh"

The order of every season from now on is "Make Playoffs". Will they sacrifice the future in order to do so? NO. "NO POST APEX PLAYERS".

Once they make the playoffs, their goal after that will probably shift into: "Win the Cup" - it is at this point that you hope they make intelligent moves in trading away SOME of the future to enhance the 'win now' - as long as they have a viable shot at it.

Just like Blue says: "Stop, Breathe and Think!"
I honestly hope you're right.

I'm more in the "fool me once ..." camp.
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