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Originally Posted by Flamesfan05
Yes, I want him signed too but we have extra dmen and would be nice to get a decent forward long term instead of losing him for nothing
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Teams like the Lightning that win Stanley Cups can afford to lose players to free agency for no return. Teams like the Flames really can't. They got nothing for Gaudreau and ideally would not do that again in successive seasons but if the team is good and Weegar is a big piece of that you just know that the Flames will roll the dice and let him walk.
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I find this to be short-sighted. The TB Lightning are not in a different roster-construction situation than the Flames on the basis of their Stanley Cup Championships. Rather, both teams are in the same position when it comes to their rosters and assets now, because both teams are clearly, obviously built to win a championship now, and over the next few seasons. What the Flames cannot afford to do is to waste this window of opportunity, and selling incredibly low on a potential #1 defenseman like MacKenzie Weegar is doing just that.
Simply put: If the Flames are a playoff team—and it sure looks like they will be—then they will not, nor should not, be shedding key players from their roster in-season. The only exception to this is in a hockey trade if the return improves their prospects of winning. Whether Weegar is signed in camp, or not extended at all over the course of the season, the Flames situation makes it virtually certain that he will either finish the season on the roster, or will leesslikely be moved in a hockey trade that improves the roster immediately.
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I understand it but if you aren't going very deep into the playoffs it's poor asset management.
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But there is no way to know whether any team will be "going very deep into the playoffs." The best that anyone can hope for is that the team as assembled does, and judging the roster at the outset suggests that the Flames look to have a good chance of doing so. The fear of not winning more than a round for this team should not cripple them from making the best decisions from being as competitive as they can be this year, because this is their time. MacKenzie Weegar is an incredibly important piece to the roster puzzle, and keeping him for the year is almost certainly much more valuable than practically anything that could be returned in a trade.