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Originally Posted by taxbuster
Think you're wrong about that. The scorched earth crowd wants to chuck everybody, including Huby, Weegar and Kadri, Lindholm, Hanafin, Toffoli, Markstrom. There may also be others.
First: that's not going to happen without massive discounts and salary retentions and neither of those is going to provide "seeds".
Second: if everyone brought in is young....who is going to show them how to be professionals on the ice? (One of the small benefits of Looch.) Yes, the coaches will do that...but it's different on the ice.
You just can't dump everyone. There's a middle ground and it's - if done with care and thought and planning - the optimal path. I'm not smart enough to know what that is, but I'm pretty sure that the radical crap spewed on here by some posters isn't "it".
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Oh yeah, if people are expecting Huberdeau or Kadri to get traded any time soon (if ever), I think they’re out to lunch.
I generally think the best approach right now is gather as many future related assets (picks, prospects) and load the system up that way. I don’t know if this team will ever outright tank, I doubt it - but the next best thing is to get ruthless on trading players for futures. We need the bullets in the chamber, and if we can hit on enough of them we then stand a chance to build a team filled with youth that can perhaps bring in the next wave of Flames hockey that maybe even makes use of Huby and Kadri’s time here in Calgary.