How's the upcoming drafts for the next 5 years? If it's deep, trade for picks. The thing I hate seeing is this stupid attitude that it's shameful to tank and rebuild have-assed just to make the first round or be a bubble team every other year. Seems this team is always missing a few key pieces. You can only build from the goalies out so far before you realize that you also need to get bigger and grittier up on all 4 forward lines.
I'd say to the Flames organization, when it's time to sell, make sure the team tanks fully so you can get at least one of the top two picks. None of this s**t on pride. It's like what Marsellus Wallace says "...That's pride [f'ing] with you. [F***] pride. Pride only hurts. It never helps." I don't say that the Flames try to do what the Oilers did and go 5+years like that to milk the system, but if the team can get the likes of McDavid/Draisaitl or Crosby/Malkin, Ovechkin/Backstrom - I wouldn't feel any shame at all. It's actually more profitable to build around players like those than what we currently have.
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