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Originally Posted by kehatch
You never had a point to miss. If you think there was an extremely small market for a guy like Iginla coming off of a 40+ G 80+ P season because he made 7-million you don't know what you are talking about. The guy had better then a PPG in 4 of the prior 5 seasons and was coming off his tenth 30 goal season. You think teams were going to balk at 7M for 3 more seasons? Rubbish.
I stand by my argument that the Flames would be in much better shape if they started the rebuild following the 10/11 season rather then let themselves get fooled by the late season push. To be frank I am surprised that is even a debate as it is as obvious as saying you get wet when you jump in the water.
As for the rest I get the Flames weren't as bad last season as the Oiler's were at their worst. I never said they were. I said we are in a similar place as the Oiler's were coming off of their 08/09 season.
However, since we traded away two of our three best players with the third retiring without actually replacing them chances are we are inline for a 60ish point season next season. Barring a series of breakouts from Flames prospects we are in for a long long season.
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What sad attempt to bully and you still don't care to understand what the argument is. Anybody would like Iginla but if you are a cup contender in a cap system, it is almost impossible to fit him in at 7M x 3 years. You have to lose some other quality players in the lineup, so how much more does the team pay in futures and prospects? Especially when the ufa market has an annual crop of 30ish forwards with 30ish goal seasons who can be signed for less than 7M and you don't have to give up any long term assets?
You seem to need to pat yourself on the back for making some obvious correct statements in a previous post. The sooner you start rebuilding, the sooner you get to the middle of the rebuild. No. Kidding.
In 2011 they traded Regehr and Langkow for younger players, and they stopped being significant buyers at the deadlines. So there is an obvious transition at the time but Feaster is publicly talking about the playoffs and the 2nd half surge yada yada. Now that Iginla's contract was expiring and J Bouw's almost done, they could finally do the deals and publicly acknowledge an obvious rebuilld.
Edit: Flames will likely be in the bottom 5 next year, because we are obviously rebuilding and now already have a top 10 prospect pool.
Oilers just fell apart. They did have Gagner, Eberle, etc and then were 30th place team for years.