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Originally Posted by dino7c
Duclair is also injured and not expected until about halfway through the season
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The plot thickens. Capped out, top heavy, young potential stud G blocked by overpaid unmovable vet, Dcore comprised of a 1D and a bunch of 4/5/6's. Lacking picks to address needs. We complain about Lucic and Mony at $11m combined with one year? Try Bob and Hornqvist at $15m. They don't even have the assets to get rid of them and they could both retire today and not impact the team's chances at all. A young cheap G that they can't develop or utilize with 10m vet blocking and unmovable. They are going to have to trade Knight to shore up the line up and pray Bob has good year, a totally random chance based on history. Trading Knight won't fix cap though, and they need the guys making money or they are robbing Peter to pay Paul because the bad cap can't be moved with no picks for 5 years lol. Better hope Lundell and that Russian kid blow up into top line guys so they can move guys like Bennett or Reinhart for space. But who replaces them? They have no picks and who knows with the prospects left? They really aren't in a great spot at all, I would much prefer Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa and many others tbh. I realize they won the presidents last year but I see a franchise that is probably going to be top 10 in the league for a year or two but lose in the playoffs to deeper teams with lesser cap issues that actually have draft picks!
The flames should under no circumstances trade that 2025 1st they got unless a big overpay. Give it 3 or 4 years, the Panthers could easily become lottery quality with all their issues. If they had a guy like Yzerman as GM I might not be as pessimistic but so far Zito looks like he's over his head and trying to force things, he's not patient and he overpays and I think he's overreacting to playoff losses in a small sample and making panic moves as a result