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Originally Posted by ricardodw

The Flames are not miles behind the other organizations....

Just because some guys have had a good year or good junior tournaments doesn't mean that they will be core players in the future.

Almost all the teams with young cores. to make the Flames cry in envy...... the Oilers, the Avs and the Flyers are not a heck of a lot better than the Flames and are in a worse position wrt to cap space and filling the holes needed.

Right now, in this spending limited league the cap space created by off loading the "3 solidest core pieces" and freeing up 20M in cap space is like having 3 more picks in the top 5.


The Flames have the cap space and the willingness by the owners to spend to the cap to sign the 3 best UFA's that the Flames want.

Where does a core of Horton, Clarkson, Clowe, Baertschi, Backlund, Glencross, Gio, Wideman,Brodie, Cammalleri, Tanguay, Hudler and Mackinnon/Jones fit in as far as making the playoffs the next couple of years.

I like the Flames chances far more going into 2013-14 than I did going into 2012-13.

They can make the playoffs with a few decent UFA's but they won't go any further, I would have thought the last 4 years would have shown that.