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Originally Posted by TOfan
The conversation is regarding UFA bottom rotation players. Someone made the comment that the cap space gained through Gio’s departure.
I don’t consider Brouwer or Neal to fit the bottom rotation. Or at least that was not the intent. Either was Frolik, if anything, he was a very good UFA signing. Bologna was a trade and Raymond was a bet on a rebuilding team that prevented them from doing nothing they didn’t want to do otherwise. In other words, fairly insignificant, but people like to whine anyway, so here we are talking about UFA signings from 7 years ago.
Signing a vet to low cost/low term contracts is something most teams do. They don’t always work out, like any nhl transaction, but the intention is not misguided. I know this is talking in hypothetical’s, but had the Flames signing Patrick Maroon two or three years ago, the avalanche of whining and complaining would have been something to behold.
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Good for you that you don’t consider Brouwer or Neal bottom rotation players that’s what they were for the Flames and at top 6 dollars. Fact of the matter is that when Treliving paid them those dollars the risk was higher that they would become mid to bottom 6 players especially in the latter years of their contracts. Rather than ponying up the extra mill or two it would cost to get the sure thing. Bad contracts to aging vets who used to put up top 6 numbers is Trelivings trademark this time of year and it sounds like we are players to do it again with Coleman. You can try to defend Treliving and his UFA performance over the years but this is a results based league and he has next to no results to show for near 8 years of directing the ship so sue me for being disappointed I guess when I hear that we are going after the same blueprint that has netted us those no results in those 8 years.