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Originally Posted by TOfan
I was just trying to emphasize the point that if the Flames traded every player approaching UFA status, they would go nowhere.
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The cutthroat approach that would maximize most players' value would be to trade every player at their prime as their current deals expire. At least as far as your top players go. The problem with that is you're always ~kind of~ in a rebuild until you get the right combination of young players that click, and happen to have lucked out with the bottom half of your roster guys that are on cheaper deals mostly being slam dunks.
Where this loses appeal is mostly with the fanbase. If you never have a "face of the franchise", it's likely harder to sell your team to your fans. Though all of the above said nobody's really gone all-in on this type of approach, or the GM gets canned before it can pan out.
In other words - If Johnny doesn't sign with the Flames, the consensus is going to be that he should have been traded so that we at least had a return. And really it's hard to argue that if that's the route this goes.
Same thing was discussed ad nauseum when they waited too long to trade Iggy.
Hopefully he signs and we continue to build around him and none of the above matters.