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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
There are no guarantees in life. Getting to the final makes it worth the cost.
This is an exceptionally deep rental market. The team will have other playoff runs, but they may not have the chance to add a 27 year old 1st line forward to play on their 2nd line.
I don't want to trade significant assets for just anyone. Stone is an elite player, and he'd be the missing piece of the 2nd line. We may have to play a team with Erik Karlsson and Brent Burns. It'll be easier with Stone than Ferland/Simmonds etc.
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I just don’t think they should trade significant assets for anyone that we will lose in the summer. If we could trade identical packages for Stone or Schenn I would do the Schenn deal because we have him next year. The Flames lack significant assets. We have a bottom 5 prospect pool (especially if Valimaki/Kylington/Andersson have graduated)
What happens next season. I feel the Flames have opened a window similar to the Jets last tear. They had one of the deepest and strongest prospect pools in the league and made a rental move for Stastny. Thanks to the strength of their prospect pool they could easily make that move. They are back in the mix next year.
While I am not opposed to trading our 1st (because I could easily see Treliving trading Brodie for a 1st+ in the summer) I prefer we do it for someone that helps us more than once. We already are without a 2nd this year and didn’t draft until the 4th round last year.
Some posters in this thread make it seem like this is our only shot. This team still likely has to learn how to win in the playoffs. I prefer we do not trade our 1st, Kylington, Bennett, Dube etc for a couple months of a player. If the Sens will do it for something cheap and help out our cap then sure a 1st and a small plus works (1st+Frolik for example)