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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
There's a difference between having a competent farm system and being asset rich as you suggest. A segment of our fanbase seems to struggle with this notion that the Flames are certainly not asset rich. A huge portion of the league has farm systems with a very similar quality of prospects as the ones you have listed.
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We certainly are asset rich. A lot of them happen to be pieces we'd rather not move but that doesn't change the fact we're by far the most asset rich we've ever been in my 20+ years of following the team. It's not because of the prospects. It's because of our amazing young players + the prospects.
How much value league wide do you think players like Gaudreau, Monahan, Bennett, Tkachuk, Backlund, Ferland, Giordano, Hamilton and Brodie have? TONS. So we can agree with have excellent assets on the main team right?
Combine all that with our good young prospects and picks and we're asset rich. We're asset rich to the point where we can actually afford to start giving up top prospects if its in a deal that really makes sense. If we didn't draft Monahan and Bennett could we think about trading Janko? Not a chance. But with Monahan, Bennett, Janko and Backlund all projecting as top two line centres we're extremely, extremely asset rich at that position right now. Most fans may not want to trade those assets but to say we aren't asset rich there would be false. If we didn't trade for Hamilton could we ever think about trading Andersson, Fox or Kylington? Wouldn't be wise. But we have enough good depth on defense that we conceivably could afford to give up one of them now. We're asset rich at that position and thus we were able to trade a guy like Hickey without it depleting our depth noticeably and probably can afford to deal one more prospect defenseman if Treliving finds the right deal.
We're rich enough in assets and have enough good prospects that we could afford to give up a 1st rounder in the right deal.
I don't know why people try to insist we aren't asset rich. When have we ever had as many valuable young players, prospects and picks? I can't think of a time in the last 25 years.