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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I agree with some of the sentiment above, but the flames haven't had an 'ideal' roster since the 80s.
Even last year they had significant holes in the lineup that were badly exposed in the playoffs. They did nothing to address them at all during the off-season, and age related decline has made those holes even worse.
A significant portion of this board wants to fool themselves every year into thinking the on paper roster is any better than 10th-15th in the league. Either they are wrong basically every year, or the flames are the single unluckiest franchise in league history.
I know what's likelier.
It's rebuild time again, folks.
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I don't think this team needs a full rebuild. They have a young core and for me they just need to make some hard decisions on a couple of players to do a re-tool on the fly. If it was me Backlund and Gio would be gone this summer. Gio is not getting any younger and we could still get a great haul for him. The other player would be Johnny hockey if they really don't think they are going to be able to re-sign him. I have my doubts that Johnny wants to stay out west. Between Johnny and Gio i would like to think 1 of those players could bring a gritty top 6 center. After that you hope the rest of players traded, bring in young d and young wingers.