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Originally Posted by CanadaMatt
I'm not sure where you got this from. I don't see anybody advocating a "radical face lift". My take from this forum is that concerned folks would have been happy with the addition of a reliable 2nd line RW, which appears to be one of the biggest holes in the team
Would you admit that immediately after Game 5 against Colorado, you would have raised your eyebrows if somebody said that at the end of July, the Flames would have added only Talbot and Lucic to this team and seen the back of Hathaway, who left for a fairly marginal contract?
People keep mentioning 2nd overall, but you'll note that betting markets have the Flames ~10th to win next season. I think that a fair placement of where the Flames will be next year (i.e 4th or 5th in the conference) after Vegas, St Loius, Colorado and then battling with Dallas, Nashville, San Jose. for home ice in round 1
For the record I am 55% sure that the Lucic for Neal deal was a win.
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I certainly didn't have Lucic on my off season shopping list, but then I didn't have getting rid of Neal at all that likely either.
I did discuss Talbot as a pretty good stopgap, but thought it unlikely with all the talk about him being a buddy of Carter Harts.
Hathaway I was happy to see leave at $1.5 x 4. He tripled his shooting percentage and was bound to get overpaid when he returns to his regular fourth line play. Glad it's not Calgary paying it.