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Originally Posted by stemit14
It is a sign that the flames likely have a long way to go in the rebuild… while the young guys (Zary, Honzek, Wolf, Klapka, Coronato) have looked good, most of the scoring and key roles up front have come from the veterans still (Kadri, Backlund, Mantha, Kuzmenko, Coleman, Huberdeau). When those veterans are more of the complimentary players and the younger guys make up most of the top 6 forwards and top four defencemen, the team will be on their way out of the rebuild.
The rebuild could still happen faster than some think though… it requires the flames to hit big on their next two drafts IMO. No small task but if they get a #1 and a #2 center out of the next two drafts, they could be looking ready to start to get better.
Zary-xxxx-Coronato
Honzek-xxxx-Sharangovich
Huberdeau-Posposil-Gridin
Klapka-Kadri/Backlund-xxxx
That’s just a very rough outline of what the team could be in 3 years… with the missing spots filled with (potentially) guys drafted in 2025 and 2026. Obviously that won’t be what it is… guys will get traded or just won’t develop how we all hope. But there is the potential for things to work out this way as the forward line up. It assumes the vets with expiring deals are not re-signed (except potentially Backlund) and the vets with long contracts are not traded (Huberdeau, Kadri and Sharangovich).
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I think just normally you’re probably replacing 20% of your roster per season anyway. The Flames in the last 2 seasons have replaced 70%. Over 3 seasons 82%. That is a lot.
I think the problem they are going to have is having too many prospects. As in they probably have 3 dmen on the wranglers that could be on the main roster now. Guessing that’s why Barrie and Hanley are around.
Mantha will be the big decision. There are less forwards or maybe none that are ready for top 6 minutes.