I have loved Kylington since the draft, but he simply doesn't have the body of work for the Flames to safely gamble on buying more UFA years. I was critical of the Tkachuk deal for this very reason years ago.
Kylington may explode and make the Flames look foolish in the years to come, or he may regress and just have trouble being an NHL regular. I really like his skillset, and I personally believe he will continue to improve to the point where this is a bargain of a deal, but it is still only 1 consistently solid year beside one of the better defensive defencemen in the NHL. I would like to see more to gamble long-term here. Not every player ends up like Josi.
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