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Originally Posted by Brad Marsh
I was really intrigued about UFA this year given the flat cap and the cap crunch that so many teams are under, coupled with the fact that the Flames had some money to spend. I was hoping to see some creativity with trades, and some smart, bargain, "efficient" signings. Instead our two big signings seem more like the traditional big term and big dollar UFA signings that so often end up being mistakes.
Sorry, post too long. Actually, don't have time right now to write a shorter one.
Bottom line for me: still more work to do and time to do it. Hopefully there is more to come than a few small moves to round out the roster.
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Agreed.
I can live with Markstrom because at some point you just need to take a leap on a goalie. But with the way the market was the Tanev deal feels like one that nobody else was giving in this market.
If they could have combined the Markstrom deal with some smaller moves that would have been ideal. Especially in a week when the market has likely dried up and teams that still have space will likely be able to have cheap depth, Flames won’t have that chance anymore.
And the Tanev deal just feels so close to the other mistakes that Treliving has made in the form of Hamonic, Brouwer, Stone, and Neal.
Those moves kill us. If we didn’t trade for Hamonic we wouldn’t be so desperate for a RH dman because Noah Dobson would be knocking on the doorstep.
If we didn’t make those other bad signings and hadn’t signed Tanev we would have had an extra $12.5M in cap space to work with right now to add an actual top end piece. This team needs to stop spending UFA money on mid-tier middling free agents.