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Originally Posted by dissentowner
If you are trading Gaudreau and Monahan for picks and prospects you are taking a team that really only needs a good coach and maybe one more piece to be a contender and flushing it down the drain. You better move Gio as well and you can forget about handing Tkachuk the C as he will bolt as soon as his contract is up as he believes in this group and you will be sending him the totally wrong message. You won't be landing a Hall if that is your thinking as he wants to play for a team looking to win, not tank. The best play the Flames can make here is to bring in a good coach and maybe another piece or two depending on cap space. This is a team that is built to win now and can but you need the right conductor to drive the engine.
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Unless those pieces are a number 1 center and a number 1 defenseman, than no this team isn't that close to contending.