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Originally Posted by dammage79
I can see the Flames 2014 picks being used this year to grab some RFA's Like Berglund, Pietrangelo, Wheeler, Anisimov, Mueller, Alzner and such. Tons of teams are going to be struggling to get under the cap so this off season is a perfect storm to rebuild in.
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Pietrangelo will not be taken away from St. Louis. If the Preds were able to keep Weber for a year no chance the Blues are letting their Norris calibre defenseman go on a RFA offer.
RFA's seem to be a good way to screw up the rebuild and get us to the mediocre/bad team we were the previous 3 years.
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
FYP
The Oilers, assuming a half competant management, aught to be in good shape with this, it is to early for the Flames though to be frank, all UFA's do is replace the expensive aging core you don't want with someone elses old expensive core they didn't want.
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Oilers have so much cap space going to guys like Eberle, Hall, RNH and eventually Yak in the future that I think they will be resigned to short term deals like Calgary. Probably fits their team better than Calgary but they probably need to focus more on trades than FA to improve their team and get what they need.