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Originally Posted by Wolven
I did the same thing when I saw this thread and deleted what I was writing because it doesn't make sense to both want to keep Cammalleri on the team and want to trade him for yet another first rounder. I think he would be a great captain to bridge the gap between now and when Monahan or whomever is ready to step up and take charge of the post-rebuild team.
The problem I see is that if we keep Cammi, then we need to look at shipping out some other veteran forwards to make room for rookies.
Then after the deadline we try to deploy something like this:
Cammalleri-Backlund-Jones
Baertschi-Stajan/Monahan-Stempniak
Glencross-Knight-Gaudreau
It gets tricky because we would really want to balance out the lack of size between Cammi, Sven and Johnny hockey. I would still do it though if Cammi wanted to re-sign for a resonable price.
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It is highly unlikely that Gaudreau will see the ice with this years flames team this year. The NCAA tournament starts end of March (around the 28th) with the frozen four scheduled April 10th and 12th. Flames last game is scheduled for April 13th. That really doesn't give him a big enough window to play in Calgary (last pair of home games are April 9th and 11th and late March before that). I think he plays for the Heat if anything. I couldn't find their schedule, but last year their regular season went to April 20th.