[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

And that could be the Flames. We trade Johnny and Tkachuk for assets now, and see what happens. Better to have the 3rd best odds than no odds at all.



YES! The Flames need to get back pick+A-prospects for guys like Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan, Backlund and Tanev. They can hang onto Hanifin, Andersson, Kylington, Valimaki, Mangiapane, Lindholm and still be bad enough to be bad for a couple of years. Then see how the draft works out. Plus in a year's time you have Lucic as an enticing contract for a cap floor team, you might even get an asset for him after you pay his signing bonus



Buffalo's failure to build around Eichel is a testament to how asset-poor they were, much as the Flames will be if they let Gaudreau walk for nothing and then get bent over in the Tkachuk situation.

The time to declare a rebuild is the minute you've established that you can't get Gaudreau re-signed to a fair extension. He can't be your "own rental" like Brodie a couple years ago.

Like two posts ago you said we shouldn't trade Gaudreau so we can justify the rebuild.