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Originally Posted by Joborule
Brodie and Frolik could still be traded. That's the luxury with the Chucky signing is that the Flames aren't forced to do anything, giving other GM's leverage. And even if they aren't traded, they're still contributing players to the roster, and Flames are better off with them, than a AHL/bottom lines player that you likely get in a trade right now. You don't just trade for the sake of it. The position the Flames are in, they should be trading to get better for now.
And if they walk this summer, Flames still get something. It's called cap space.
Don't make trades unless they make sense. Flames are in win now territory, not later. So keep Broide and Frolik until they can get a trade that at least brings in the same amount of productive value as we get with them right now.
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Agreed they can still be traded and personally I hope so. Letting them walk is a bad scenario. The Flames can pay Rasmus which is good but the last thing I want Treliving to do is go shopping with cap space in his wallet.
Unless this team wins the cup or at least goes extremely deep then the Hamonic deal will be looked at historically as a significant loss. This team has a brutal prospect system and 1 playoff win to show for it.
At the end of the day the Flames can still move those guys and not lose them for nothing.
At the end of the day if you told me after the Flames got spanked in the playoffs that we would sign Tkachuk to a bridge that still made him the highest paid player, and the only roster moves were swapping Neal and Smith for Lucic and Talbot I would tell you that is a brutal summer.