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Originally Posted by TOfan
So what’s your pecking order? For the sake of argument let’s lump the sub 6’ 200 lbs forwards in the system. Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Dube, Philips, Pettersson, Pelletier, Philp (missing anyone?)...seems like quite a few, no? Not only that looking at a few of the players who should be on the table around 19 at the upcoming draft, a lot look to have the same attributes. What do you do? Hold on to all of them? Move who?
Mangiapane for Anderson might just be two names included in a larger deal but point being the Flames do have a surplus of small skilled competitive wingers. There is risk with Anderson and his shoulder (you have to know what you’re getting) but there is a decent amount of smoke here and has been for a while.
No doubt Mangiapane is valuable as has been discussed quite a bit but it wouldn’t surprise me, whether it is Mang or otherwise, where a player is moved and it going to catch people off guard.
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The answer is easy, keep everyone!!! This team is amazing as is and not a single player should be moved because with any luck, this team might win a playoff round next year!!!
This team is not as good as the sum of its parts. There are people who want to keep a certain player and make a great argument for keeping them. Then someone else has a great argument for keeping a different player. What people aren't looking at is the big picture...this team isn't good. Well they're not good enough at least. They could keep the team together and compete with the other mediocre teams in hopes that they make the playoffs because "anything can happen". Talking to some fans of the Flames is like talking to someone in an abusive relationship..."the Flames have been a certain way for the past 30 years but this year is different, I can just tell!" Fans of this team need to step back and take a good hard look at things. This team isn't a bunch of young super star prospects that are maturing another year and it'll all come together. They're not, they're not good enough to compete with great teams and while other teams are improving, they seem to stay the same or add an overpriced average at best player.
This team needs a complete rebuild that is done properly. They need to commit to building a good team and if they have any success, they can't spend assets to compete too quickly. This team just isn't good enough.