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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
^ this is just ass backwards.
The team is competing now, it's the first time they've actually be a legitimately competitive team in maybe a decade. Replenish the pipe so the Flames have players available when Gaudreau's contract is expired and Giordano is 40? I don't want any more players in the pipe if it means first and second round exits.
Gah, it's so counter intuitive. The flames moved picks for players for years when they were terrible, and now that they are good, posters don't want to make the team better.
I just don't understand it.
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But picks take time to acquire and grow.
The Flames rebuilt, and came away with a solid young core. So Treliving supplemented that core by acquiring Hamilton and Hamonic. Those trades are now going to start paying dividends, as the team grows into their talent.
Also, through that stretch, the Flames had a stockpile of promising prospects. That's why Treliving went ahead and started supplementing the core - he thought there was enough there. And he was right - it took some tweaking, but the young core is now poised to enter a 'win now' window.
And there are all kinds of assets to work with.
However, we also have to look 3 to 4 years out. There is nothing there, with respect to continuing to supplement the core and keep the team on a plateau. So they need to replenish the cupboards.
It is really bizarre seeing the most vocal person on this site about/against trading picks, suddenly doing a complete 180 and saying we need to start going the other way. I think your disconnect comes down to not considering that picks pay dividends 4 years out, not now. And Treliving nailed it IMO.