Is there a team in the league that has practiced asset mgmt as badly as the flames? The last good team we basically had to pay Buffalo to take regegr, gave away iginla for a pile of beans and had kipper retire in house. There was no foresight at all. Watching this play out with gaudreau and tkachuk while they are even younger is painful.
I am staggered that we are 5 days from ufa and we're about to let our best player walk for nothing providing one of the biggest fish in the ufa pond in years.
I know it's painful to trade stars but something has to change with this franchise. Johnny should have been dealt a couple of years ago if he didn't want to be here long term.
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