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Originally Posted by dino7c
His numbers in Calgary are irrelevant, why keep talking about Calgary? Again they were forced, I am talking from a Florida perspective.
When you win the presidents trophy and trade multiple firsts to win now the trade doesn't make a ton of sense IMO.
You keep acting like losing Weegar was nothing, have you seen their D? Their future was now, they had been building for years already.
Any good team could trade their top players for younger ones and be better for the future but when you are at the top of the league you gotta go for it a few times IMO. They traded all their draft capital to win now and then traded current players to win later. (Maybe). How are they going to get back to being a top team with no draft picks? Tkachuk is 5 years younger but they also traded 3 first's. He will be close to 30 by the time they can build it back up if at all.
We can agree to disagree but I dont see the Panthers as a top team anytime soon
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I don’t think signing 30+ players to 8 year deals is the way to extend windows. Look what happened to LA and Chicago when they locked the cup winning cores up to massive raises for their 30’s. The teams became irrelevant. Florida has Barkov, Tkachuk, Lundell, Knight and Ekblad as core pieces. Bennett and Reinhart are support pieces in their mid-20’s. They have the benefit of being a tax haven and likely a desirable destination for free agents.
I disagree significantly their best move was running it back with 2 pending UFA’s and signing both to 8 year deals like the Flames did. Calgary had no choice in their pursuit to win now and not face the same challenge that happened with Gaudreau with Huberdeau and Weegar.
Calgary and Florida have similar records and Florida plays in a far more competitive division. The Pacific leading Kraken would be 4th in the Atlantic and the last place Canadiens are better than the Canucks, Sharks and Ducks.
I can’t think of a team in the league that would take Huberdeau at $10.5M for the next 8 years and Weegar at $6.25M for the next 8 years over Tkachuk at $9.5M for the next 7.
I think both teams overachieved last year and Florida decided to make changes and Calgary was forced. The Flames right now (key words I hope that changes) look to have made the wrong call pursing older players vs a younger building block like Necas. The fact the Flames look so far from being an elite team paints a dark future with unmovable old players