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Originally Posted by zamler
I don't think our lineup is as bad as they are playing, but okay what would you do?
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As I said earlier...changes to the core group. What specifically would I do? No idea because I don't know who will be available nor what the desires of some of the current guys may be. A lot of that is not decided yet because teams havent missed the playoffs nor gotten beat in them at this point, so themselves they dont know where they may want to improve.
I guess one would have to identify who it is you (BT) feel you have to retain moving forward, then find out what others around the league think about them in regards to who you can get in return, then make the best decision you can from there. I have no doubt that Gaudreau would be heavily in the mix from the Flames standpoint though...something is very very wrong with him and it isnt physical. Looks like he is not having any fun playing the game at all..whether that is because of something to do with where he is playing or not, it sure doesnt seem like its fixable here. This is now coming up on a year.
And just to add, I'm not advocating keeping Ward necessarily, but jesus himself couldnt get this group to the heights they want to get to which is why changes to personnel has to occur.
One thing i think has to happen before all that however is deciding who, if either, of Hamonic or Brodie (neither guy is part of the core IMO)you will be able to bring back and deal the other guy. If neither, I think you deal them both. This team is not good enough with them, so losing them for nothing makes zero sense. Thats job 1 for BT at this point heading into this last 7 weeks before the TD.
So yeah unless some theoretical switch gets turned on, everyone starts pulling in the same direction, and they play like many of us believe they can....then a major shake up has to and will occur around the draft imo.