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Originally Posted by Icon
Really comes down to how much they believe they were close last season.
If they figure some better goaltending (or at least a couple less gaffs), a few less posts and an average amount of OT wins would have put them in the playoffs... and they think they would have done some damage in the playoffs... then I could see them deferring making trades until they see how the team looks this season, at least until the end of the calendar year or by the trade deadline.
It's not what I want them to do, but I could see it happening.
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this may be the view prior to the last month, however, the news coming out on players looking to move changes that calculus a lot.
if you take out Hanifin and Toffoli alone from that line up, playoffs aren't a given...
the only reason to hold off trading until the TDL is so players can rebound their value and to allow teams to sort out their cap issues...
at the end of the day, these players are still UFA, so regardless of how the team is doing, you run the risk of losing them for nothing if you go beyond TDL day
you need to move them while the Flames still have leverage... the more time ticks aways, the more other teams will know the Flames are desparate and the market will crater, potentially