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Old 02-22-2024, 01:52 PM   #23577
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Originally Posted by Redrum View Post
We're like a couple months into rebuild/retool mode. I sure hope you're not getting impatient now, because right now a move like that is how you stay brutal forever. We're still early in the process of getting rid of old players, still extremely talent thin, with very little coming up the pipeline.
Or trading a player like that for futures is how you end up the Buffalo Sabres. It isn't like Kuz will be 37 when the Flames turn the corner, the goal is to be competitive by the time the arena opens. Kuzmenko will 32, he doesn't rely on his skating but his shot and his smarts which will be the same then as it is now. As long as you don't hand him a NMC you always have options to move him if it isn't working out. What you don't want is to build a team that is ready to compete except they are missing a Kuzmenko on the wing.
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