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Originally Posted by loob job
I totally agree with the OP, getting a top two pick would have put us ahead a couple years on this clear rebuild. Signing Hiller, a very good goalie, was head scratching to me at the time. We trade away players for picks and now we're signing a number 1 or 1a goalie. I don't know which direction we're going here, i hope management does. I think it would have been smarter to see what we had with Ramo, maybe get one of these huge prospects in the draft to add to our already great prospects and then start making moves to improve the team next year. Just my opinion though.
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I don't get the mystery here.
In the first place, even if the Flames are terrible, they will still be very hard pressed to be worse than Buffalo and Florida, and now worse than Carolina with their injury problems, and probably worse than Edmonton or Winnipeg. There are some really, really bad teams in the NHL this year. In short, even in the event that Treliving chose not to make any roster improvements from last season, chances are still pretty high that the team would not have finished in the bottom three.
Second, it is pretty clear that Hiller was signed to replace Reto Berra. A massive upgrade, to be sure, but one also that has virtually no impact on the development of any of the Flames current goaltenders and prospects. Even with Hiller on the roster, the Flames are not impeded in any way from seeing what they have in Ramo.