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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It takes years to build your roster to a point where you like it enough to say make an "all-in" trade for Hamonic and you don't just blow that up after a single disappointing season. There's no doubt the team needs a scoring RW bad as well as some improvement in the bottom six but that should be attainable. The quality of free agents available this summer is abysmal so I don't know if they will want to get into a bidding war for a guy like Kane but the organization has several defensemen and defensive prospects which can be moved to improve via trade. I expect Treliving will be extremely busy at the draft.
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Agreed ... we're hockey fans so it's natural to get pretty despondent over a bad season, but they have to be rational.
They have three excellent young core forwards (Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk), an emerging forward support core in Backlund, Bennett and Jankowski with hopefully Foo and Dube on the way, perhaps Mangiapane or Phillips.
They have a core defense group that is deep and a very deep prospect pool, including one of the best defense pairings in the league at the top.
The issue is scoring up front and goaltending ...
It's clearly a move a defender for a winger summer, and they need to decide if they have the goaltender in house, or if Smith can handle the load for another season in net.
When you look at the mess in other Canadian cities the Flames have a lot to work with.