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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's not like he's an elite star player. Looks like a nice player kind of in the Lindholm mold but Lindholm never really moved the needle for the Flames. This organization needs elite, difference making talent. Necas isn't going to drag the Flames into the playoffs on his back. He may be just good enough to maybe move them out of drafting in the top 10 but he's not going to turn around the fortunes of the franchise. Trading draft picks for him would lead to more treading of water. I personally don't see the Flames moving the 9th pick for him so I'm not overly concerned about these rumours. If they want to work it into a Markstrom trade then no problem.
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Teams usually don't move elite talent anyways.
Necas is a good piece to trade for coming out of a rebuild with an established core of young player, to add as a complimentary piece.
We trade picks for him now, we will look back in 3 years and say well we could have drafted X and X, and our team probably wouldn't be floundering right now.