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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
If the Flames can't bring back Gaudreau, I do fear how they would spend the money.
I'm not crazy about giving Tkachuck over 10 per for 7-8 years given how bad his skating is. Mangiapane is tough to gage because I keep hearing how he's not a 6 million dollar player....but he just scored 35 goals last year, and did a lot of it at ES and without Gaudreau. 71 goals over the past 3 years likely has him as one of the top 60 goal scorers in that time frame. Kylington should get multiple years if you can get it from him price will depend on term. Than it's a matter of what they spend to replace Gudbransson and Zadorov. I could see them going with an expensive third pair agsin to keep the minutes for the top 4 down. So if you spend that...you just lost Gaudreau for nothing to keep the rest of the team. Which would be pretty meh.
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It all hedges on how long Sutter wants to coach. He can probably get results from a roster that's based on quantity of good players without any great ones. It won't last though as we saw with the Islanders the margins are slim and if things don't go right and key players slump, it totally collapses. We all knew this was coming and that the team was hitting a point of critical mass. They went for it this season and it was always going to be decline after as you can't keep everyone in a salary capped league and this team just didn't peak high enough with all it's talent assembled. It's likely going to be pretty meh going forward until they decide to rebuild but as we have seen with this ownership they are content with meh as long as it keeps them in the mix for the 8th playoff spot.