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Originally Posted by playmaker
I hope we are not. It is time to give Jackman's ice time time to Ferland, Poirier or Knight. Similarly, it is time to consider trading Smith and call up Tyler Wotherspoon.
It's rebuild, not retool time.
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It s possible to make a trade where a big ticket contract comes back and doesn't hurt the rebuild. The rebuild is going to take another two or three years, at least, and the team can afford to bring in some veterans or bloated contracts if there are quality kids coming along with them. The Flames still have a ton of cap space, so a couple of bad contracts they have to eat in a deal is not a bad thing, if there are good young players coming back. I doubt that any of the players on the farm will get a taste until the major moves are made and the dust settles.