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Originally Posted by jayswin
I think the Hamilton deal was a homerun, but needed to be the only swing for the fences. We needed to take that homerun and keep the draft picks coming around it. It's the other trades and free agent signings that have killed us.
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I think Trelivng over paid for Hamonic partially because he values good contracts more than most GM's. I also think he hit a home run on the Smith trade too
Treliving hasn't been great trading for and signing players from other teams but he has excelled at resigning his own players. No way should he be feeling the heat until next year if things don't pick up. The Flames will have loads of space this summer to be active in the free agent market. If he does well there this team has potential to be much better next year
Other than Brouwer IMO all players contracts are moveable. If things get tight when Tkachuk's contract is up he should have loads of options to move guys out. But I wouldn't be surprised he does very well at getting Tkachuk to resign for less than most expect he will get
The Flames have 0 cap hits in the top 40 of the NHL. Pretty good considering we have players like Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Hamilton and Gio. By this summer we probably won't have a single contract in the top 50. Probably the best cap situation in the NHL right now for teams in the playoff race