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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The problem with this thinking is that even if they dr idea to move on from Monahan and/or Gaudreau at the 2020 TD the only deals they would have been entertaining would have been for packages of picks and prospects. It is usually far too difficult to make hockey trades at this time of tbe year, and there is no way the Flames were making a deal for these ayers that did not include impact players in the same age-window coming back.
I just don't believe a TD move to reshape the forward core would ever have realistically been possible.
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Wouldn't have had to be right at the TDL, but by time Jan 2020 it was pretty clear that the '18-19 run was the exception, not the rule. I was specific to Johnny as the guy to change for multiple reasons.
The point I made is what if a player (say Johnny) gets injured for the rest of the season? Does the team fold the tent and go home? Or would they still have a fighting chance?
A Konecny deal was probably already impossible by that point, but I could have seen something with BOS (who spent big to get offence from Kase). Something like Debrusk+Backes+1st+prospect(s)/pick(s) for Johnny. No doubt DeBrusk is a major downgrade and has regressed this year, but it would have turned a new page for this group. Ultimately it would probably fail, but IMO we would have had better odds of becoming a sustainable contender than we did by keeping the course.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am unsure of how to assess the Hiller signing. It was only two years, he was 32-years-old at the start of the contract, and had solid numbers in his last two years in Anaheim. He provided as much as what could have been expected his first year, and then fell off the map in year-two.
I don't know if it was a good signing, but it most definitely was not a bad one. Was it an impactful signing?
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Signing a goalie on the wrong side of 30 was a helluva lot better than trading assets for one (twice).
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I thought so too. No one is really coming forward with ar argument that he has done a good job. But there are arguments that it's not his fault, inherited a disaster or needs one last kick at the can to prove he can get it done.
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For me it's simply a matter of him being best positioned to navigate this TDL and off-season. A third of the way through next season we'll have a better idea of whether a re-tool is feasible or not.