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Old 06-30-2022, 08:28 AM   #4691
Moneyhands23
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Originally Posted by Royle9 View Post
Your points above + the hire of Sutter and his verbal acknowledgment of wanting redemption for 2004 are the reason this team wont be "rebuilding" any time soon (next 2-3 years)

Even if Johnny/Tkachuk leave, the Flames will be forced to bring in more UFA's to try and push the window. Not that I agree with it at all, but its pretty clear they have no plan for a rebuild any time soon.

Goalie in his Prime
Core on value contracts currently
Lots of veteran depth

The only negative aspect is Johnny being a UFA now and Matthew an RFA with 9M qualifying offer and what's seemingly become a 'higher' chance we could lose one or both.

That's my only knock on Brad right now, we went into this season w/ Sutter at the helm and burned a bunch of picks to bring in depth scoring etc but had no real "plan" in place for Johnny and Matthew. Now we're effectively a week away from the draft and still 0 news on our 2 biggest question marks.

Scary stuff.
The Sutter thing is irrelevant to me. If the team starts s rebuild he will most likely retire. If they go out and try and build through UFA they are just going to be mediocre then ruin the entry level deals of Coranato, Pelletier and Zary (and probably a few others). If Johnny walks and Tkachuk won't sign long term deals it's just so stupid to pretend we are in a "window to win".
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