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Originally Posted by cannon7
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.
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Yeah, this season and next are the tail end of a failed core. Having 2-4 valuable UFAs to trade every deadline is a crazy expectation. I don’t really count Zadorov as a valuable UFA though.
The athletic ran an analysis.
https://theathletic.com/5084336/2023...t-picks/?amp=1. Basically ranked teams by actual results vs expected results.