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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
Not sure if it is Edwards, Burke or Teliving but I firmly believe that the Flames as a business will no longer add any A" list players as UFA's again.
It will be the Raymond, Engelland, Diaz, Setoguchi variety of junk.
The strength of the future Flames teams will be through drafting and that is based on scouting hope and luck.
If the Flames want to get to that next level they are going to have to include at least B" level UFA's.
On paper Raymond in 2013 was a second tier UFA but Engelland, Diaz, Setoguchi are 3rd tier UFA's the bottom of the bottom.
If Burke and Treliving continue this the Flames will continue to just come up short.
Not sure if that is their choice or they are being instructed to not pursue A" list players.
Whatever the case is they will have to hope they hit home run after home run in the drafts.
Kind of reminds me of rainbow thought of buying penny stocks hoping they hit a $.
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Hopefully they will tread cautiously in this area moving forward, but I'd be shocked if that were the case. Contending teams, or teams that think they are contenders add A list UFAs on occasion, not rebuilding teams. Rebuilding teams like ours had no appeal to the A list UFA's last few seasons, and we obviously had no real use for them. So we are left filling roster spots and B and C listers.
But if this team continues to improve, obviously that dynamic changes a bit, so I'm not so sure that it's the organization writing off A list UFAs so much as it's simply a factor of our current environment.