Part of me thinks acquiring Richards (+assets) in a cap-dump deal is win-win. The upside is phenomenal, if we could give him top 6 minutes & get him back in decent shape.
Then the rest of me (the rational part of my brain) worries that 5 years of that contract will limit the Flames options when all the young players need to be re-signed. The rational part of my brain also bitch slaps me for contemplating adding a poor skater to the line up. I can't imagine him buying into the kamikaze forecheck system Bob Hartley employs.
It's a big gamble which is unlikely to pay off & I'm really glad Treliving changed the goal-posts on the rumoured framework for a trade. He should be asking for the Moon.
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