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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
If we build through the draft and end up with good players through the draft we will be stuck signing 2 or 3 year deals for some of them because we have old guys taking up the cap space. It seems pretty obvious that the best approach for the Flames is to sign young players for as long as possible coming out of their ELC. Those contracts worked for almost every single player they signed them to and in general across the league those contracts work. People were criticizing the Thompson contract last summer, now Buffalo look like geniuses.
Using up space and the signing Honzek to a 3 year deal in 2027 because we can’t sign him to a longterm deal would be the worst scenario. Have 7 guys over 30 for all I care as long as they make less than 20% of the cap space. Leave your cap space for guys in their 20’s.
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If Honzek needs a big deal in 2027, how did he play on his ELC? If we hit on some young guys a lot can happen in 4 years.
This team minus Toffoli and Hanifin might not look as good on paper right now but it isn't that bad either if Markstrom and Huberdeau play much better than they did last year. This team will have some young players to watch this year and if we have some good rookies this team can be good.
I'd love to rebuild but it looks like that isn't an option. If you are Conroy and it isn't, what do you do. Act like CP posters and go into Murray's office and tell him every day we need to rebuild, and he says over and over again it's not an option. Need to go to plan B. Way too many posters on here won't even acknowledge any sort of plan B. It's one way only.