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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
It is absolutely pointless to move Kadri after the stretch drive he had. They invested in him. He's shown he can be better. For a period at the start of the year, he was the Flames' best player — period.
I'm confident he'll rebound under a strong communicator at the head coach position. He's a proud guy and a competitor. The way people are talking about him, you'd think he's some sort of diva. He's clearly not.
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While I don't completely disagree, how many points a year (assuming we're basing results on points), does Kadri have to put up per season for his contract to be worthwhile? If he's the second scoring option on this team does he have the capability to fight through the opposing teams' best defence to produce into his 30s? I'm very skeptical of that. In Colorado opposing teams had to shut down Rantanen, Makar, Landeskog, and McKinnon, while also being concerned with smaller threats in Nichushkin and Toews. So somewhere along the lines you don't have to match up against the best defenders. On Calgary the focus is on a few. Anyway, at $7.5M/season, he's gotta put up 70 points consistently for him to be worthwhile. It should be very possible to do in his first 3 years, even against the toughest matchups he'll have to face, but beyond that I have my serious doubts.