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Agreeing with Lanny that the Flames need to be competitive for the next 4 years to build themselves into a favourable rebuilding situation.

Duhatschek has an article today in the Athletic speculating if the Devils can retain Meier.
If Meier was willing to do a 5-6 year deal in the $9-10M range and the Devils dont want so sign him for that long would a trade with the Flames make sense?

Devils would get Mangiapane in return who makes $5.8M.

That leaves an additional $3-4M that the Flames would need to clear in order to add Meier. Most likely that would mean trading Coleman.

Is removing Mangiapane and Coleman for Meier a good direction for the team?
Assuming that the Devils would take Mangiapane in a trade if they are just going to walk away from Meier.