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Originally Posted by Canada 02
Some teams are so deep that Seattle will have 4 or 5 very good players to choose from. Calgary has 1, who is 38, and on the decline.
Five years ago Vegas had no good signed players to choose off the Flames and had to pick a UFA. Sad state the Flames are in that in five years they really haven’t accumulated much depth
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To be honest, I like the players on the Flames protected list more than than most teams. They would have been in a tough spot protection-wise if Valimaki didn't miss a season, so in that case they may have had a few good forwards like Backlund, Dube, and Mangiapane available to protect their D.
I'd be interested to hear from Treliving if there have been players available in trade that never happened because they didn't want to lose assets in this draft.