Neither Frost or Myers has the upside of a player like Johnny and Voracek is a contract that will look uglier every year it is on the books.
Teams sure have success with a bunch of 31-37 year olds eating up 32% of the cap and that is what this deal does to the Flames. Voracek, Gio, Backlund and Lucic. This team hasn’t won anything but they are somehow locked into an aging core. But they got some average you g pieces back. Maybe Frost can make it on the second line some day? Could be he is only a 3rd liner. Pretty average numbers for a guy drafted 3 years ago already. Myers could be a second pairing guy but he now needs to be protected over the Captain which makes sense but now your trade has cost this team Gaudreau and Giordano without bringing back a single elite piece. This somehow sets the team up long term?
A top 10 pick in this coming draft immediately becomes a better asset than Frost. Not tying up $8.25M in Voracek allows them to take a run at Taylor Hall. Your deal prices them out immediately by adding significant cap.
It is like there is zero thought of the cap or expansion draft?
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