The Flames D is tough to wrap your head around.
They look so underwhelming as a group on paper, but it's hard to argue with the job they did last season, especially Wideman, Russell and Engelland who stepped it up huge when Gio went down. Yet you look at those three and want to upgrade at least one of them badly, even despite the strong seasons they had.
Ultimately a decent upgrade will be hard to acquire without handing out a terrible UFA contract to an older player or severely denting the prospect pool in a trade, so I think the Flames management has to ride out this D for now and hope some of our youth steps up over the next couple of seasons.
I'm pretty sure though, that if/when the Flames win a Cup (or at least contend for one) our top 4 D won't consist of Giordano, Brodie, Wideman and Russell.
Sure would have been nice to land Tyler Myers.
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