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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
The biggest risk for me is deepening our prospect deficit, making the inevitable rebuild that much harder to crawl out of. I don't think we can afford to be making futures deals when we are in the bottom 5 in the league in futures as it stands.
It's awfully tempting because it would undoubtedly add some excitement, and he's a young core player, but the cost is too prohibitive for the Flames to rightfully be considering, IMO.
The team may not rebuild now, but if we keep things at current course, there's a good likelihood this will bottom out and we'll have a more solid foundation of prospects to build from if we have the good fortune of getting a top 3 pick as the franchise piece.
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have a hard time agreeing.
The Flames are not going to rebuild. There is no indication of this happening in recent history, the past 20 years or so, or recent history, Sutter hire Markstrom signing.
With Treliving having two years left on his deal the time for bold action is this offseason. If he can find an elite player to catapult the team into contention, I think that is the only way he is going to see the final year of his contract. It is risky, but that's simply the cost of doing business as a GM in the NHL.