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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
I don't get your perspective. Sure, their odds may improve when they are more experienced. But it just doesn't necessarily work that way - as a progression, at the time the team seems best poised to win. Leave that for hindsight. Why do anything but take our best shot at winning the Cup this year?
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Because for most people the best shot meant throwing away assets and/or ruining our cap situation next year. Flames don’t exactly have a lot of prospects or young players who can contribute. Trading them away will hurt the 3rd D and 4th line depth we’ve built. And for better or worse the Neal contract exists and it limits what the team can do.
In regards to goaltending while they were goalies out there who are better than Smith the difference wasn’t that big. Their certainly wasn’t any goalie out there better than Rittich available. I wonder if they talked to LA about Campbell but other than him all the goalies on non contenders are crap or unavailable. So I’m not surprised no move were made for goalies and nothing much happened in general. That is what Treliving said, he’d only make deals if it was a long term benefit to the team and not rentals. Other teams can throw away prospects because they have more young depth than we can.