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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
They chose the direction this summer when Gaudreau walked and Tkachuk was traded, and Huberdeau and Kadri were signed long term. Once that choice was made, it's on rails from there. There is no exit from the path they chose. It's win-now, or bust. Unfortunately, they are not in the position to make win-now moves. I expect Treliving, or whoever replaces him, will have a busy draft and off season re-tooling. The trade deadline for a team in our situation just isn't a great environment to make moves.
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Then they should extend the GM and indicate that though it hasn’t gone to plan year 1 , but this is the plan.
I have thought about the sutter hire not ultimately being a treliving call, and that perhaps the flames have offers on the table but treliving isn’t so sure at this point.