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Edit: I was tryin' to quote Lanny here, my holier-than-thou tone doesn't quite land if it's not clearly directed at CP's eminence-gris

I know your whole "thing" is overreactions, but you're going a little bit overboard here. There are plenty of other teams with similar or worse depth issues than the Flames, these teams made the playoffs last year:



Nashville
Forsberg-Duchene-Sissons
Grimaldi-Johansen-Kunin
Cousins-Trenin-Matthieu
Tolvanen

Josi-Myers
Ekholm-Benning
Borowieci-Fabbro



Saros

Minnesota
Kaprizov-Erickson Ek-Zuccarello
Foligno-Rask-Greenway
-Hartman-Bjugstad
-Sturm-



Brodin-Spurgeon
-Dumba


Talbot
Kahkonen


Nashville's second-best centre scored 7 goals last year, Minnesota's scored 10.



Even teams like the Leafs start to look pretty thin pretty fast:

Nylander-Matthews-Marner
Kerfoot-Tavares-Simmonds
Mikheyev-Spezza-Engvall
-Brooks-



Muzzin-Brodie
Reilly-Holl
Dermott-Sandin


Campbell



Kerfoot and Simmonds combined for 15 goals last year. Are the Leafs probably going to do fine based of the production of their big 4 forwards and Reilly?



Or look at the league darling, and regular-season division champion Carolina Hurricanes, how badly do you think they want to shore up the left side of their lineup or the right side of their defence? And find a goalie?


Teravainen-Aho-Niedereitter
Foegele-Trochek-Svechnikov
-Staal-Fest
Lorentz-Necas-


Slavin-Pesce
Skjei-
Gardiner-


??



There are a few teams out there: Vegas, NY Islanders, Tampa, Washington, Boston with genuinely enviable depth, but to say that "any and every" NHL team has better, more enviable depth than the Flames - two days before free agency - is just silly.