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Originally Posted by kehatch
Conroy is paralyzed. The team has to rebuild but it can't rebuild.
We can debate a rebuild all we want, but the point of a rebuild is to establish your core. The Flames have lost most of its core (Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan, Giordano, Bennett) and may lose most of the rest (Lindholm, Hanafin, Backlund). Therefore we have to rebuild. The only question is whether it's via high draft picks or "on the fly".
At the same time, the Flames can't do a traditional rebuild. We don't have the prospects and we have too much invested in veteran players. As such your trying to balance a rebuild with staying competitive and that's very difficult.
It limits the moves available. You can't lose players like Hanifin for nothing. That impacts your rebuild and it hurts your competitiveness beyond this season. At the same time, you can't trade him for futures. You can't lose that type of asset and stay competitive.
That leaves you with a hockey trade. But even that isn't clear. If Lindholm stays then the trade target is a scoring winger with a RH shot. But if Lindholm doesn't stay then you need to trade Hanafin for a center.
I expect once they figure out what's happening with Lindholm the dominos will begin to fall. But Conroy has a heck of a balancing act to perform and he is running out of time to do it.
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I agree, but I don't think he is running out of time until the trade deadline, he is ok to be patient until then.