I don’t hate this.
End of the day, we turn a 31 year old UFA into a 25 year old RFA who scored 24 goals the season before last.
He’s Russian, and now is a good time to be signing Russians, since they don’t want to be sent to Ukraine - having Zadorov was good, having two will be better - Russia produces too many quality players for the Flames to have ignored them for 20 years.
He’s not going to be expensive - $2M salary, coming off a down year. And it’s not like he’s gonna be some $6M player on an extension either.
And we get a 3rd rounder back as well.
I don’t want them to get PLD’d on the Lindholm/Hanifin deals, but I can live with this return for Toffoli quite easily.
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”All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”
Rowan Roy W-M - February 15, 2024
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