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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The weird part about the order from the ownership to sell draft picks to become competitive is that it only came into effect when Brad was here. I think Darryl traded one first round pick in 9 years. And the order to be competitive and not build for the future seems to come and go. In 2015 when the Flames were in a playoff hunt ownership was fine with trading Glencross. But then they changed their mind over the coming years and ordered Brad to be competitive and not build for the future.
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Yeah I really doubt the owners tell the GM to mortgage the future and spend as much as possible to win-now. It’s probably more along the lines of if you splurge on contracts and sell off future assets, you better have something to show for it.