Pretty much every player on this team over the age of Mikael Backlund will not be here once the Flames are competitive again.
Once players like Baertschi, Gaudreau, Jankowski, 1st round pick, etc start taking spots away from the other top 6 players, we'll find that we have too many players for not enough spots for them and the vets, which will lead to the vets getting dealt for other areas that are weak (namely prospects)
We have only one guy that's consistently playing like a top 4 defenseman in Brodie, and other than Glencross we have no top 9 forward that is playing so well that they're necessary to keep in their top 9 role in a couple seasons.
This team is basically the Columbus Blue Jackets circa 2002. We have a couple decent but unspectacular vets, and a couple prospects playing on the team. Nothing to write home about. At least we have 3 firsts, which we can hope can be parlayed into some additional good young players to join our club.
We are not going to be getting out of the wilderness any time soon.
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