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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I'm building further evidence that the management team is not proactive in almost any sense. They are a completely reactionary body. That's not planning. It's not a plan to react to something and hope for the best on other negotiations. A plan is : "If x doesn't happen, we have already set trade y to bring in player z", "If x does happen, then we will propose a different trade or scrap that trade as no longer useful".
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That’s a plan, but the absence of THAT plan doesn’t mean there is no plan.
An obvious problem with that plan? If guys learn there’s a trade ready to go, that’s going to impact how they feel about the organisation if it doesn’t come to pass (Brodie). Trades also involve other teams, so as much as you want to “have a deal in place” you also have other teams looking at other moves, any of which could nullify their interest in waiting around for you as a GM to wrap a bow on your situation.
The plan could also be to sign Tkachuk and Mangiapane, stand pat on the rest, and go into the 2023 offseason with more cap and a better read in the NHL potential of your younger guys. The plan if one of both of those guys don’t sign could be to stand pat, unload contracts over the year, and try to bring in more 1st round picks for 2023.
You’re not building evidence of anything, you’re whining that the Flames aren’t doing what you want them to do and pretending the fact that they aren’t is evidence of some universal truth. Your ideas come off like this is a video game where timelines and other actual humans are irrelevant to your will to make your moves. It’s pure fantasy.