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Old 06-28-2021, 04:03 PM   #14478
Vinny01
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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck View Post
The Nets analogy is meant to highlight how hamstrung the franchise was without picks while the experiment did not go as well as expected, not the age of the players in question.

Acquiring a 22 year old elite player for 4x 1st's, with I would say equal risk of this team being a lottery contender vs a playoff team, is foolhardy. Especially with the status of our prospect pipeline. It would be ludicrous asset management.
There isn’t a single RFA this summer worth the 4 1sts. There is also almost no way the Flamea carve out the cap space where they could offer a player a 10.3M cap hit so it is a moot point.

My argument to your analogy was comparing 22 year old RFA’s to a trade in another league where a team mortgaged the future for a bunch of 35 year old players. This is very different in my opinion as the Flames would be adding a potential decade+ piece to their lineup.

It is all fantasy talk anyway as the cap really limits their ability to pull it off
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