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Originally Posted by Poe969
Just stop pretending already. Tkachuk isn't staying and the team is a lot worse than their team that wasn't good enough last year.
Start developing players that you can trade for assets instead always giving assets away. See what kind of talent you have in the system and try to build from within, stop "going for it".
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Yes and no.
On the one hand, the temptation to go scorched earth is very real, especially with Bedard up for grabs.
On the other.
Johnny Gaudreau just told the world you couldn’t pay him enough to play in this town.
When Panarin and Bobrovsky left Columbus, they didn’t trade Werenski - they turned around and gave him 8 x 9.53. They had to show the league that they aren’t some stink hole market that can’t keep anybody.
The Flames are in the same spot, except their team is better than CBJ’s was without the two Russians. They almost have to Re-sign Tkachuk, just to prove they can.
He’s only 24. He’s got a 100 point season under his belt, and he’s been to the playoffs four times.
They have the cap space. Next year more than $11M comes off the books between Monahan and Lucic alone.
Coleman, Andersson and Markstrom are the only guys currently signed past four years, and they have no more buyouts counting against them. Their cap situation is actually quite good.
It could be entirely possible to retool this roster. If you can keep Tkachuk, you can keep Lindholm, and that’s 2/3 of a damn good top line.
8x$9.76M. Make it so.