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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I don’t think there’s much risk of that. The Oilers just dealt a 3rd for a guy that sounds worse than Stone. I mean we’re not talking about Brouwer here. These guys aren’t buyout candidates. They are solid NHLers who still contribute. Stone would probably play 20 mins on the Oilers right now if they had him healthy. Frolik would be a 1st or 2nd line winger on the Oil.
Depth players on good teams have value. Stone is only #7 here because we have tremendous depth on defense. He’s a 4-6 guy on a chunk of the teams in the league. Frolik is a solid 3rd line winger on most teams and would be a top two liner on the weaker clubs. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that their value has massively dropped just because the Flames depth got a lot better.
I doubt we trade Frolik, he’s valuable to us. Stone I could see going if the entire defense gets healthy at the same time but it’s easy to imagine us keeping him as well.
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This. The only guy unmovable on this team is Neal, everyone else could be traded for salary reasons if need be.