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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
What you don't seem to be taking into account is what teams will be selling at the deadline and what teams will be playing the crap out of their rookies post-trade deadline. We will be selling off one of our more dangerous wingers (Cammy), one of our top few centres (Stajan) and perhaps much more. EDM doesn't have as much to dump (Hemsky?, N. Schultz?, Belov? Potter?) and they aren't trying to tank this year so its unlikely they dump anybody outside of Hemsky. They desperately, desperately need to show improvement to their fans, to show that the team is on the way up. It's almost more likely that they try to improve their team immediately at the deadline.
It would be pretty shocking the Oilers outsucked us the rest of the year and especially post-trade deadline. The Islanders have way more offensive talent than we do.
I'd have to say BUF and CGY are the favourites to finish bottom two although maybe FLA will be in that conversation. CGY will be playing the crap out of their young guys post-trade deadline like last year I would think.
Plus we could still win the lottery even if we finished 3-5th.
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The Flames playing the crap out of their rookies last year cost us Nathan Mackinnon.