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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah two will be worse especially with the Flames moving vets for rebuild pieces. The Flames will have to sign some vets for next year in order to stay above the cap floor. But the vets we bring in will probably be third or fourth liners.
On top of that we're going to see the next wave of kids moving up the lineup.
I would expect that the Flames drop down in the standings next year, then jump up the year after that and hopefully compete for a playoff spot in year four.
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I think this might happen - but I see no reason why this team might actually do better in the standings next year.
At this point I don't see the core group of veterans pushing this team forward - Early in the season it was mostly them (Hudler,Cammy, Stempniak, Gio, Monahan).
It's the young/new guys now (Backlund, Monahan - still,Bouma, Ramo,Russell, Brodie,Gio,Colborne). Hulder's been ok. If Glencross is back next year, I expect a rebound year from him. If we are missing Cammy and Stempniak I don't see how we really miss them.