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Originally Posted by djsFlames

Trading Hall and Yak did a lot for the Oilers. Retooling the rebuild. I'm starting to think that's something the flames should consider. A lateral move, young player for younger player? These young guys aren't bad. They're good and have potential yet, of course, but I don't know if they're all the sort you win with. When has Monahan shown more leadership than scoring the odd goal in a losing effort? Shown any grit or unhinged emotion for his team? Sam Bennett has all the potential in the world but is incredibly fragile mentally and undisciplined. I still remember when he didn't make the team out of his first camp and how petty/entitled his attitude about it seemed afterwards. Perhaps those two guys don't have the intangibles to help make this team a winning one, as much as we know they'll be productive NHLers. There's guts who can make careers as nhlers and then there's guys that make teams winners. I'm not sold on this crop, because I don't see any of them stepping up, in any sense of the word.

I don't want them to trade any key players (yet) until we see what they can do with a real coach again. We know these guys can play, we've seen it. These are the same guys that stepped up bigtime to win a playoff round 2 seasons ago. Trading one of them just to see them have amazing success under a competent coach somewhere else would be unbearable.