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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Prospects and draft picks is such an overrated "asset" as it guarantees you nothing and is zero help if the team is crap and/or the players available aren't any good.
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Sure they can be overrated and guarantees you nothing but also are the best and easiest way to get guys on cheap contracts that you value so much as proven over the last 6 years with Crosby, Toews, Kane, Malkin.
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Proven over the last 6 years every since Sam Gagner was the best prospect on the team with the best young guys and had the best draft picks in the history of the league.
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I guess if you use an example of the worst team in the league you can argue in favor or against anything.
Khabibulin is evidence that using FA's to supplement the core is a terrible way to go.
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Right now the Flames are paying their core the same as Edmonton's core and
Tanguay, Wideman, Hudler, Gio and Glencross are not markedly worse than Eberle, Hall, Horcoff and Smid AT the same price.
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Sure but Edmonton is a terrible team and once you add in other guys that are more part of the core than Horcofff and impact the game pretty easy to see the difference in points.
If you keep using Edmonton as the example i guess again you can make a lot of things look bad since they are horribly managed.
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Feaster has gotten rid of a lot of the super Bad contracts and the Flames are in a better position than Edmonton......
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As much as I hate Edmonton no the Flames are not in a better position because looking at the core of each team next year and their is no doubt that Hall, Eberle, RNH, Smid, Dubnyk is better than Tanguay, Cammy, Backlund, Gio and Ramo. With Edmonton also having better support players as well.
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Wideman might earn his salary as high scoring defensemen.
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Not a chance.
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The teams that offer Horton or Clarkson more than 4M / year are going to be very limited.....
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And wildly disappointed if they pay that.
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Clowe has to look at what the post goal scoring machine Bertuzzi got paid.
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And stay far away from the Flames hopefully.
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The lack of cap space has hurt the Flames in the past as they could not afford the 2M value contract for Owens and then Bertuzzi.
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Owens I assume is Nolan and who cares? Those guys aren't changing the fortune of the team.
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The Flames were on the wrong side of the Regehr-Butler trade because they were in cap prison. Now they are in a position to convert Butler into someone else top 4 d-man.
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They were on the wrong side of that deal because of terrible scouting on Butler and their stupid desire to waste FA money on Richards. Don't make the stupid decision to go after Richards and no need to be in the BS "cap jail" and make a bad deal.