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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I want to horde draft picks and pick top 10 but what can you do?
Conroy did all he could to set us up to be in the top 10 and keep our pick. Two proven top 4 NHL dmen. Zero proven starting NHL goalies. Payroll just barely above the cap floor and that includes retained/dead money.
The team just isn't bad enough to pick that high, and has probably already bottomed out.
But the Flames appear to have found not only a starting goalie, but a star goalie who is just 24. Our D and W prospect pool is absolutely loaded and we still have 4 first round picks in the next two drafts. Just have to make those count and hope we can dig up some high end C prospects deeper in the draft than top 5 or 10.
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I agree the Flames are too good to be terrible. That's the point. The types of moves we are making are normally done to round out a strong core. Without the core these types of moves are just going to keep us in the "too good to be terrible, not good enough to be great" category.
I am not talking about the Frost deal specifically, that was just a high value move period. But holding on to pending ufas like Lindholm, Hanafin, Andersson; targeting mid line tweeners; potentially giving up true futures for assets that help now; etc. It's unlikely to balance our aging vets let alone make the large step forward we desperately need.
I am just tired of a strategy that, at best, keeps is very average.