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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The desire to re-build wasn't isolated to a few posters that are now pretending like they were smarter than everyone else. There was pretty wide belief that the team SHOULD re-build. However, there was also recognition that it was not likely to happen including due to lack of support from ownership.
So a lot of folks evaluated the trade with that in mind, instead of ignoring those realities completely.
It's easy to say a team should re-build if you choose to completely ignore the role that ownership plays in allowing for that.
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A lot of other factors at play too. Other team's were holding onto their pics tightly last year and no competitors could afford to take on cap. The Flames have a bunch of solid depth pieces that are very hard to replace. It made sense to run it out one more year and see what was there.
The Flames are making the correct move now, by not giving out he long term vet contracts and selling the players off now.
What really F-ed the team was giving Huberdeau a contract that couldn't be bought out or traded. I wasn't there for negotiations obviously, but his contract seems like it has excessive restrictions given how much money they are paying him.