Flames should sell hard but know they should only be selling players that have high value and sit on their players who have low value. It has been so Flames in the past to wait to trade high value players when they are at their lowest value. Iginla should have been traded two years earlier for an absolute haul. Instead, they waited and got put over the proverbial barrel.
Players the Flames should be trading right now are Toffoli, Lewis, Lucic, Tanev and Backlund. Three of these guys are playing great and should garner big returns based on what is floating around at there. Lewis and Lucic could garner returns based on their experience. Both these guys need to be traded because the coach is over deploying them, much to the detriment of the collective team. Get the big haul, try and get the team moving in the right direction and get the next group of players you want to move and get a secondary big haul. Then focus on building to the future with the new core of Huberdeau, Kadri, Wegger et al.
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