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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Lindholm and Hanifin are the ones in line for big money extensions.
They are one toe-pick or stray elbow away from costing themselves tens of millions of dollars - Hanifin in particular should only look at John Klingberg (who is also UFA again this year) to see what can happen to D who overplay their hands, and Hanifin has never been as dynamic as Klingberg.
The draft is the 28th - make your best offer before then. If either guy hasn’t signed on the line which is dotted it by the morning of the 28th, they aren’t signing.
At that point, Conroy’s job is to maximize the return. A sign and trade + 50% retained on both would return a monumental package that could accelerate this team’s fortunes by a couple years.
Backlund, Toffoli, Tanev and Zadorov are all on good contracts and will be useful to teams at the deadline, and then Calgary can walk into the 2024 draft with potentially an extra 1st or two, certainly two extra 2nds ++ in addition to whatever they get for Hanifin and Lindholm (which should be at least two more 1sts, two good prospects and some reasonably good cap dumps.
They’re not gonna go full Oiler and Ram the ship into the iceberg, but seizing this moment to add a plethora of young assets is what a good organization would do.
They’re not going to win a championship with Huberdeau, Lindholm and Kadri as their best players.
But they might win one with Huberdeau and Kadri at some point, if their best players aren’t yet in the organization.
My $0.02.
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This post is a total pipe dream of someone who doesn't get the Flames are not rebuilding anytime in the near future no matter how many times they hear it. Also, Hanifin is a much better D man than Klingberg. Klingberg is like an offensive forward on D, sure he QB's a PP better than Hanifin but that's it. As a matter of fact Klingberg might be the worst defenceman in his own zone in the entire league.