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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
Yea, 45 points last year
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45 points in 65 games prior to a freak medical accident. A 57 point pace. How many Flame are on a 57 point pace?
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on pace for 13 goals this year and maybe 50 points,
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Shooting a career low 7.7% on a team with arguably the worst puck moving blue line in the NHL. While being a RHS forward on a team with too many of them between himself, Eichel, and Reinhart filling overlapping offensive niches, a non-issue on the Flames who haven't had a top six skilled RHS forward since Iginla and whose future hopes lie in Matthew Phillips and Eetu Tuulola.
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all for 6 Million as he enters his 30s for four more years.
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You are describing every top six forward contract over 30, minus two years.
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You and I have very different ideas of what makes sense.
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Well, I mean, if the idea of, in some universe, simultaneously dropping Brouwer and adding a legitinate top 6 forward does not make sense to you, that's cool.
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In a few years we're going to be spreading some big money around to younger players
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And thus any trade for Okposo or ROR or even Kane would obviously have extranneous salaries like Stone, Brouwer, and/or Frolik going the other way.
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and that contract has the potential to be Brouwer level bad.
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Well, no. You are comparing what is probably a solid first liner to what was probably at his absolute best a solid 3rd liner, who are signed through to the same age at the end of their deals. Even factoring in a sudden decline you'd have a serviceable top 9 forward in the final years, which is a worst case scenario.