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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I'll start a firestorm and say that I would trade TJ Brodie straight up for Matt Duchene right now now. Why? Glad you asked.
...For all the talk of building a defense to compete with Connor McDavid, we might consider looking at this from another angle. Johnny and Sean combine to make $7.9M less than McDavid and Draisaitl. The contracts of our star players allow us to afford an extra star player plus something else.
Further to this point, if we're building to beat the Oilers, our forwards are going against a top 3 of Larsson, Klefbom and Russell? Nurse? Sekara? ...
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I believe this is where the philosophical error lay in your proposal. This idea of "building to beat the Oilers" is a convenient invention by the media, but even before McDustpan arrived in Edmonton Treliving was already on record about the importance of building from the goal out through the middle of the ice. We now know that long before he traded for Dougie Hamilton in the same draft that the Oilers won Treliving was entrenched in discussions with Boston. We know that the Hamonic deal was two years in the making, which would set its inception long before the Oilers ever played a playoff game.
No. The Flames are not "built to beat the Oilers." The Flames are built to win the Western Conference and ultimately the Stanley Cup. This would require responses to a host of other better teams like Anaheim, Chicago and Nashville.