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Originally Posted by activeStick
Would love to have this guy on the Flames... one of the top wingers in the entire league and in my opinion, unreasonably made the scape goat by people for the Leafs problems in the playoffs (mostly because he is a Leaf and people can't think logically when it comes to them).
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Agreed.
When you blow half your cap on four forwards and dumpster-dive for D and goalies, it's not the fault of those four forwards that your team is poorly constructed.
This is not the time in the Flames' re-whatever to be going after big UFAs. But when you get the chance to acquire a talent like Marner for nothing but money, you have to give it a shot no matter where you are in your competitive cycle. It would be negligent not to try. Of course, the same goes for 30 other teams, so the odds are very long against it.