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Originally Posted by JobHopper
Tonight is only game 10 in a long season. It's pretty obvious to me that the Flames need another D-man that can play a regular 15-18 minutes a night.
You can't play Wideman and Giordano upwards of 30 minutes a night. Gio is already hurt and Wideman looked tired after all those minutes especially when they're playing back to back games. You can't give up goals because a player is fatigued.
Chris Butler with above 18 minutes last game but can he keep up that pace? I don't think he's that bad that he couldn't play a consistent 10 plus minutes a game.
Brodie is fine and his minutes will only increase, same with Russell. Flames need to keep one spot open for guys like Breen to give them ice time and games to see how they do. So the guy out now would be O'brien.
I believe that Curtis Glencross and Mikael Backlund can be replaced by players we have in Abbotsford. So those 2 guys would be my choices to trade and see if you can't get a Dman or even a better forward. They're good enough players to ge ta decent return from. Bouma pretty much replaces Backlund and he's already up here.
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Bouma =/= Backlund. Not even close.