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Originally Posted by Bonded
This is where your ideal approach turns into fantasy land for me. The Flames are already one of the best drafting and developing teams. It sounds great on paper but it is basically impossible to have 18-27 guys pushing for roster spots and 2-4 valuable UFAs to trade every deadline.
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Am curious what metric you are basing the claim that the Flames are one of the best drafting teams in the league upon?
To be clear, the 18-27 players includes the active roster. So on a 23 man roster you are a either 5 NHL players short or you have 4 more players than roster spots. Hopefully you land somewhere in the middle on a consistent basis, which is where your 2-4 pending UFAs come into play.
But as for the impossibility of having 2-4 pending UFAs, what do you think Toffoli, Zadorov, Lindholm, Hanifin and Tanev were coming into this season? Having 2-4 pending UFAs doesn't seem outlandish at all, we'll have multiple pending UFAs next season, too. How valuable they are long term entirely depends on drafting and development.