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Originally Posted by Jason14h
You don’t need to trade everyone , but the Flames also have an issue that their best players are their oldest
Outside of Rasmus , who is a core player who will be a part of a competing team in 3-5 years who people are suggesting trading ?
I understand keeping Weegar and potential Rasmus . That’s 1/3 of your D and they should still be contributing into the next competitive window
Everyone else ? Unless Shags and Kuz turn into core pieces I don’t see a lot . We don’t have former top picks in their early 20s that people are suggesting trading .
Our core is old and bad right now - which is a bad combo and really only allows a full rebuild.
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Brain Campbell, Jose Theodore, Fleischman were all big parts of the team when they sucked and got Barkov. Marcel Goc too, none were young. But when the Panthers got Barkov they added a lot more youth to the line up and they lost a ton.
Markstrom led goalies in games
Kulikov
Huberdeau
Skille
Mathais
Shore
These guys were all playing, and the team plummeted down the standings.
Next's years Flames team has no stars, will be loaded with youth that will make mistakes and fold against top teams. This team is bad already, we should be able to relax a bit that we need to do way more to get somewhere that we already are. Teams like Florida did not implement some plan to tank full SJ and it worked fine for them.
If we are pacing for 75 points this season, hopefully we sell at the deadline and hopefully getting bottom 3 is around 70.