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Originally Posted by New Era
Aren't they out of the mix? They aren't on the farm available for call up or to back fill other players, so I call that promoted.
And that's irrelevant to the discussion of organizational depth. We HAD organizational depth, but we promoted or traded it away. It's what we have right now, and what we have right now is brutal. There is nothing in the minors that can be called upon at any position. Not a single position has a player that you look at say we can be confident that we have a player that can contribute above the bottom line or bottom pair or be a practice goaltender. There is also not a single prospect in the system that looks like a blue chip prospect. Valimaki is the best we have, and after that knee injury the jury is out. That is the current state of the system.
Again, irrelevant to the discussion of whether this team is deep enough to pull off a trade where we dump multiple assets. I would love to say we could make a trade of that magnitude without creating other holes we don't have the capacity to fill, but that just isn't true. If you feel differently try putting that deal together.
Hamilton, Ferland, Fox for Lindholm and Hanafin.
Who are the assets on the Flames' side of that equation right now?
Agree there. The core pieces are the ones not getting it done at the moment. They need to turn it around because there is no trade coming that will not hurt the organization more than it helps.
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These things are only irrelevant if they are no longer here.
If you want to focus on who played for Stockton last night only, we can certainly do that, but that's far from the summary of a franchise's asset base, or young asset base.