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Originally Posted by Kybb79
Hamilton? That would be dumb but Brodie should get it done.
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I wouldn't trade Brodie for a rental either.
This team is going to have cap trouble over the next couple of years. Re-signing Kane (if it can be done at all) would certainly cost more than Brodie is making, and exacerbate the problem down the road.
The time for the Flames to start trading away top-4 defencemen is when their prospects prove they can take over those spots. Right now the team has about four good candidates to do that, but they are still only candidates. And the thing for the Flames to trade their defencemen for is equivalent cost-controlled assets, not a short-term rental of a middling player at the least valuable position.
Yes, I called Kane a middling player. Looking at his career, he is a second-line winger who happens to be having a career season in a contract year. There is no good reason to believe that he will be able to catch that lightning in a bottle again.