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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Posters who want Conroy to deal kadri should also tell us how that message should be delivered.
After a year of telling them to work hard and push, I don’t want my gm going into the room of a playoff team and telling them nah they won’t win so he’s pulling the plug.
And what about other years when the team is making the playoffs a bit more comfortably but isn’t really a ‘contender’… do you still want Craig to sell valuable pieces because the team is very unlikely to win the cup?
That’s not how you get groups of people to work towards and outcome.
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The message being we think we have depth at center (Frost/Backlund/Zary) to overcome this move. We want to develop Zary as a center going forward and we thought we got a great return for Kadri. Zary will now get more minutes against harder competition and more P\power play time to continue to develop at his natural position.
This also gives the team cap flexibility going into an offseason with numerous top players in the league being available. Marner/Rantanen/Ehlers etc. If Zary faulters then that lets us know he is a winger and the Dylan Cozens type trade makes even more sense.
Please dont forget that Kadri is a streaky player, and I question his effort and someone I want to be a leader on this team. It wasn't that long ago who disappeared for half a season after getting hit by Trouba in New York.