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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
To buy out Brouwer and immediately go back to the well with Neal shows of a general lack of patience, trying over and over for the quick fix. It really does look like a Canadian thing as the Canucks pretty well doing the same thing when they aren't ready to be a contender. Canadian owners and fans simply lack the patience for the long game.
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The problem I have with this line of thinking is that patience would not fix the RW hole. It’s not like Brouwer/Neal kept some promising young RW in the AHL. They didn’t cost any draft picks.
Who knows, maybe there was some trade where the Flames could have taken on a bad contract in exchange for an asset, then bundled that asset to trade for a good young RW?
Every year in the Treliving era I’ve looked at the RW UFA class and been underwhelmed.
There just haven’t been that many good RW options available to the Flames via the draft, trade and UFA. Yes, hindsight being 20/20, I’d rather have the capspace than Brouwer/Neal/Lucic, but I don’t think it would have mattered as much as people think.