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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Posters in here: Elias Lindholm is a #1 center that people have career years with! He's going to get a haul! 1st round picks! Elite prospects! NHL Ready sub 24 yo players with upside! The moon!
Some of those same posters in here: There is absolutely zero chance I am paying Elias Lindholm 1st line center money if he wants to re-sign here! He's not worth that! He needs to take a discount!
Ya'll are wild.
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Is this serious? I know you are not a flames fan but posting on here as much as you do you would have a pulse on the team.
The Flames have given 8 year deals to 2 30 year olds and have a guy turning 33 with 6 years left. They are the 3 highest paid players on the team and the 4th is our 33 year old goalie.
The Flames have paid their old guys already and can’t add another 8 year deal at top money to a guy who will be 30 in year 1 of the extension that is the fact. If they find a way to move Kadri without crazy retention or giving up a ton of picks then I think this fanbase would be all for extending Lindholm.
The fact is this team is getting older and upfront there is a pretty big gap of 23-27 year old forwards. We have some young guys who might be good and some older guys who were/are good. This team needs to retool or will be forced to rebuild so they can’t lock up more aging players for several years past their respective primes.
Just try to think a little bit critically and look at the whole situation and not just the player in a silo.