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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Ah, right. So "the plan" is to do nothing? Go into the season with the same team and hope everything turns around and all the soon to be UFAs have a change of mind? Because that appears to be the plan. Kick the can down the road on Lindholm, Backlund, Hanifin, Tanev, Zadorov, and Gilbert?
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If they go into the season with every one of these players still unsigned, it absolutely will be a failure and should be condemned, and Conroy himself has said that this is not his intent.
But we already saw today how GMs value otherwise good players within a flat cap world, and what even productive players like Toffoli are returning. We have a grasp of what was offered for Hanifin at the draft, or at least the basis of those deals. Absolutely un-****ing-acceptable. Garbage. Bless Conroy for telling those GMs to pound sand and see how far they get.
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This team needs a solid plan. If this team is thinking about off-loading even some of these UFAs they should be making signings to backfill them, because we do not have the organizational depth to backfill these six positions. They should have been taking advantage of the depressed UFA market and sign some of these guys to one or two years deals to provide some depth and then have additional players to move for assets at the deadline. Doing nothing does not help the situation the team is in. Having an actual plan where the team assumes control over the situation is where Flames will gain back some credibility. Doing nothing and giving control to the very players who want out is a failure and will only continue to do damage to the reputation of the club.
So for the saving future embarrassment, "what's the plan?"
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They seem to have a plan, even if it is an extemely flawed plan. Which is more than could be said of the Treliving plan, which evidently was no plan.
Conroy has made it very clear what he intends to do, and so far has followed through on his message. He wants to get younger, fill spots internally, and refuses to get ripped off in a bad trade. I'm on board with that, even if I don't agree with everything he's done so far.