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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
The Flames D is already bottom of the league with Rasmus, without him it is downright awful maybe the worst in the NHL. With Andersson he only have 3 NHL D men. What happens if Weegar gets hurt, or Kyllington needs another year away?
I say Trade Markstom, Mangiapane and Kuzmenko. But leave the D alone unless someone proves next year that Andersson is replaceable.
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There are a tonne of UFA dmen. If the Flames think that their young dmen are a year or two away they could sign a couple of those dmen to short term contracts with high dollar value to entice them to come and have a serviceable D-core.
You could easily move Rasmus out and sign two of Tanev, Myers, Dillon, Cole, Forbort, Barrie to one or two year contracts in the 5 million a year range and have a serviceable dman. Not many teams are going to give that 32-35 year old dman group 4 or 5 year contracts.
If it actually meant you got a stud young cost controlled piece for Anderson you do it every day. If the team moved out Anderson and Markstrom and even retained 3 million on Markstrom to make the return better they would have about 28 million bucks to spend on 6 players. You could blow your brains out on one or two year deals for two veteran dmen and still have money left over.
A hypothetical dcore of
Miromanov - Weegar
Kylington - Myers
Forbort - Pachal
Hanley - Okhokutuk
Ain’t great but it is not awful either, it would definitely be serviceable.