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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
I was thinking about this, we are banking on an older core, we can't even add decent players because of it. If we had a top elite player adding Nylander makes sense; but with this core and the poor efforts we saw with Kadri last season, what the heck are the Flames building. They should be trading Kadri and working the roster from there.
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The team has very little flexibility. If Lindholm is signed half the cap is going to be devoted to 6 players, none of which seem to be elite and none of which are young. So in order to improve the team, you likely can't sign anyone due to cap constraints. You're likely not a destination any top free agent wants to come to anyways. The prospects you do have on the way are not blue chippers. You can build through the draft but that likely takes several years at a minimum (especially when you have mid round picks), at which point any boost you might get from your young guys is offset by the decline in your older guys. It's nice to talk about getting younger but based on the make up of your team currently, I think your best case scenario is a middle of the pack team.