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Originally Posted by Firebot
4 out of the 5 teams with worse prospects pools have won cups and made the finals very recently
The teams he has as worse prospect pools:
27. St. Louis Blues
28. Pittsburgh Penguins
29. Washington Capitals
30. Boston Bruins
31. Columbus Blue Jackets
Teams generally have less prospects when they are good and in the win now phase. Flames were 2nd best in the NHL last year and trading picks to get above the hump is exactly what Flames should be doing. Capitals won the cup on what was considered a retooling year. The thing about prospect pools is they are no longer considered prospects if they become NHLers, which seems to be counter intuitive as you have so called prospects 2-3 years older than some guys on the team.
Our D corps age is 22, 29, 22, 22, 35, 20 assuming one of Hamonic or Brodie is moved.
We are in a win now state and should be buyers. Last year's lack of trade deadline deals cost us severely.
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Anyone that's watched this team play this season would know that this team isn't winning anything now nor were they even close last season. Would a rental at the deadline last season make the defense group not look terrible against the Avs? If that forward acquired at the deadline matched or bested Bennett as Flames best forward would that been enough to move the needle? I don't think so as if you ranked the best Flames rosters of all time you would get probably 4 or 5 from the 80's, a couple from the early 90's, one or two from the Darryl years and this and last season's roster. I have been around for all those teams and this is by far the worst team of those in regards for effort level and willingness to win. It's like they have lost the will to go out and battle or something as they have had all these meek efforts where they get shut out and have stretches where they seem perfectly fine with coasting for 60 minutes. I have never seen a Flames team where the give a crap meter is so low. It's embarrassing quite frankly and the reason the players were probably tiring of Peters is that he recognized this and was doing a lot of prodding to get them out of it to no avail. They are a talented roster of players that aren't focused on doing what it takes to win a cup. Not the first team to be like this or the last but they are what they are.
I get that we are in an era where nobody has patience and hockey fans especially pine for trades but it's highly unlikely a middling forward like Toffoli is going to cure the ails of this team. This teams issues are terminal at the core unfortunately.