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Originally Posted by home_sweet_dome
This series clearly showed you do NOT tie up $20M in Johnny and Tkachuk.
The clear and obvious path is re-sign Johnny and trade Tkachuk for the best package of younger cost controlled options you can find, preferably quality over quantity and preferably a C or D.
Any other path taken with those 2 would be terrible so knowing this incompetent organization we'll let Johnny walk and sign Tkachuk to a stupid contract.
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Flames have to sign gaudreau. If Gaudreau doesn't sign, this isn't a playoff team.
The plan isn't to build a cup winner it's to make a team that can make the playoffs.
My guess is Treliving and his bosses would be ecstatic to bring this exact team back if they could next year.
If Gaudreau stays, they gotta rethink this whole thing. That Hanafin and gaudreau exchange that cost them the OT winner is just an exclamation point. These guys will get you to the playoffs but aren't the kind of guys that can achieve anything as the go-to guys. They're definitely capable of winning a cup but in lesser roles (Hanafin and Anderson aren't top pairing guys, gaudreau and tkachuk aren't top line players in the postseason).