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Originally Posted by home_sweet_dome
Why do you have to trade any of them? The Flames should build around this young group, not be actively trying to trade them.
Of course any good GM would always be listening to offers and no one is untradeable, but for the team to be actively shopping any of these guys at this point doesn't make sense.
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It is clear to me the flames need another top flight defender and I think Bennett is the best way to get that done. Dougie Hamilton for a selection of draft picks doesn't come around every year and the flames aren't in the position to be moving hugely valuable picks with regularity anyway.
If the flames wait for players they have drafted every year to make the lineup gaudreau and Monahan are going to be out of their prime scoring years.
I also think, if the team is forecasting for Bennett to be the second line centre for Calgary going forward it might make sense to move Bennett for a more established centre like Duchene in order to move backlund this year prior to having to re-sign him.
Either way, the team isn't good enough right now and I don't see much in cupboard to make me think the flea will be good enough in the near future. Problematic though is that the team is no longer sucky enough to get a high pick; to out compete other teams this will mean continuing to move on from players the team has identified as being less important before other teams figure out the same thing.