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Originally Posted by Username: Flames
I don't see this team making the playoffs next year. Winning the cup? Really? Do
You actually see that?
Last summer, I couldn't wait until the battle of Alberta rematch...but the season proved to be a team that couldn't string a solid winning streak together.
The replacements for Gaudreau (Huberdeau) and Tkachuk (Kadri) didn't replicate what they could do the year before and now they're a year older.
I'm not trying to be overly negative, it's just like I said before: just this once, I'd like the flames trade players who are on expiring contracts for a bunch of futures. Last time they did that was when they traded Curtis Glencross in 2015, where they still made the playoffs and even beat the Canucks.
I think that year they got lucky and got over zealous with signing veterans.
Brouwer, Neal, Coleman. Even Markstrom. Over paid vets who did not live up to what they were supposed to bring.
After 2015's run, Treliving never sold high on any players. Just traded futures. 1st and two 2nds for Hamilton. 1st and two 2nds for Hamnoic.
I would love to see, for the first time in like a decade, for the flames to trade Hanifin for a 1st and two 2nds. Or Lindholm for two firsts. Anything but trading for more aged players! Flames need youth.
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I agree with the second half of your post but anyone who has watched the Flames for the last decade knows you can’t carry over the good or bad year over year. Maybe the yo-yo stops with Treliving gone. They went from 4th worst record to 2nd round of the playoffs, to bottom 5, to first wildcard, to 10th in the west, to 2nd in the NHL, to 8th place on the bubble, to just on the outside of the bubble, to 2nd in the west, to 9th in the west. In fact this team finished 9th with arguably its 2 best players having career worst seasons.
It is tough to say they will be worse next year but due to their co tract situations they cannot be in a spot where they run it back without knowing the intent of a few key guys they can’t lose for nothing. I am in the group that thinks Lindholm and Hanifin need to be dealt in an effort to retool this team so they can be in a much more competitive spot when the new rink opens.