Teams who win cups nowadays have homegrown talent as their top 3-4 players, and secondary players on ELCs who are outperforming expectations. To be legit cup contenders we need Monny, Johnny, Brodie/Hamilton to become true stars and the next crop of talent to graduate and start providing secondary scoring (Bennett, Poirier, Klimchuk, etc). Not sure how mortgaging this next wave of prospects would help, even if it landed Stamkos. By the time the Flames are contending Stamkos will probably be starting to come out of his prime and it would probably throw our cap structure out of wack.
Stay the course.
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