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Originally Posted by Vinny01
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.
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I think Brad tried to prepare us for him bringing back pretty much the same roster.
He talked frequently about how they finished in the regular season. He warned about throwing the baby out with the bath water. He talked about how someone was going to win the Stanley Cup and that team won't bring back the same roster. (To downplay how much roster turnover the Flames were going to have?)