Flames record with Gio and Wideman in the line-up 4-2-2
Flames record with just Gio 5-8-1
Flames record with just Wideman 4-11-1
Neither Wideman nor Gio can carry a team by themselves.
When they are together the team becomes competent and competitive.
It would be hard to get anything back for Wideman as he is on his over-paid UFA contract with 3 years left after this year. If any other team wanted him they could have had him for 200K/year more and give up no assets.
That is the reason that the Flames got Smid while giving up basically no assets. He has 3 years left after this year at 3.5M.
The only reason I could see for dumping Wideman would be to assure a top 3 draft pick. There is a danger that with Gio - Wideman -Brodie- Smid and Russell the Flames could go on a bit of a run and finish with the 7th/8th draft pick in the 2014 draft.
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