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SuperMatt18 · 01-17-2025, 04:23 PM

Trading Andersson and spending that money on a LH dman makes way more sense to me TBH. Weegar looks way more comfortable on the RH side this season.

Would leave organization depth as:

RH:
Weegar
Pachal
Miromanov
Parekh
Brzstewicz
Mews

LH:
????
Bahl
Bean
Kuznetsov
Poirier
Morin
Grushnikov

LH UFAs This Year that are under 30: Chychrun, Gavrikov, Lindgren, Provorov, Pettersson

I'd have no real issue with getting the Andersson assets, and then trying to use salary space to replace him with one of these LH guys.

Daniel Milstein seems to love the Flames and Gavrikov is one of his players. Gavrikov as a pretty steady LH d-man that is strong defensively, along with Bahl, gives 2 pretty stable LH partners to pair with the young RH guys.

It would be different if I thought Andersson would take a discount to stay, but IMO he's going to want the UFA rate anyways, so no point of really keeping him then. Trade the player, get the assets, then just pay a UFA to replace him but as the more needed LH shot.

01-17-2025, 04:23 PM	#7299
SuperMatt18 Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Calgary, AB Exp:	Trading Andersson and spending that money on a LH dman makes way more sense to me TBH. Weegar looks way more comfortable on the RH side this season. Would leave organization depth as: RH: Weegar Pachal Miromanov Parekh Brzstewicz Mews LH: ???? Bahl Bean Kuznetsov Poirier Morin Grushnikov LH UFAs This Year that are under 30: Chychrun, Gavrikov, Lindgren, Provorov, Pettersson I'd have no real issue with getting the Andersson assets, and then trying to use salary space to replace him with one of these LH guys. Daniel Milstein seems to love the Flames and Gavrikov is one of his players. Gavrikov as a pretty steady LH d-man that is strong defensively, along with Bahl, gives 2 pretty stable LH partners to pair with the young RH guys. It would be different if I thought Andersson would take a discount to stay, but IMO he's going to want the UFA rate anyways, so no point of really keeping him then. Trade the player, get the assets, then just pay a UFA to replace him but as the more needed LH shot. Last edited by SuperMatt18; 01-17-2025 at 04:29 PM.