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Originally Posted by 868904
Veterans are not bad. Some of you have to stop thinking like an Oiler fan.
I don't want Engelland, Stajan or Sideman moved. They are good players and very important to the culture and Chemistry of the team. I doubt Treliving is in any hurry to move these guys either.
Jones is up at the deadline, and I'm sure the Flames could move him easily if they wanted to then. Smid is a good player who is paid appropriately, it too bad the Oiler ruined his health.
Raymond has been Treliving only mistake but there was no guarantee that Gaudreau would do what he did so quickly. Raymond was an insurance policy, an expensive one. There still is no rush to get rid of him and there's no need to package assets to do so.
Flames are fine this season with the cap and all the so called "bad contracts" will be in their last year next season which makes them easy to move.
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"Oiler fan" comment is obviously out of line
but other than that, you're not completely out to lunch here.
Here's (one version) of our roster by games played. A thing that stands out is that outside of Frolik (who has way more games played than I would have thought btw), literally everyone above the 300 GP line is being speculated as guys that could/should be moved by a notable number of people on CP.
(Of course with Hudler and Giordano these are purely contract issues. Mostly with Wideman too.)
Stajan 774
Wideman 707
Hudler 604
Smid 561
Raymond 513
Frolik 512
Russell 511
Giordano 510
Jones 387
Hiller 385
Engelland 319
Brodie 266
Bouma 199
Bollig 187
Hamilton 178
Colborne 160
Monahan 156
Byron 138
Rämö 129
Gaudreau 81
Jooris 60
Ferland 26
Bennett 1
(Also, Russell has more NHL games than Giordano? Wouldn't have thought.)