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Originally Posted by Rhett44
Not selling assets at the deadline really hurts. I don't know what management sees in this team.
We have no 1st line talent. We need to tank.
We are one Wolf away from being below the Sharks in the standings.
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Sell what assets? This question continues to get asked and largely ignored.
Apart from Andersson who else should they and could they have sold?
Coleman.
That's it? That's the list.
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Exactly... what assets?
Typically the selling of an asset is when they're UFA at the end of the season. Here's the list:
Mantha
Rooney
Kirkland
Hunt
Hanley
Vladar
What are the Flames supposed to get for that to increase their chances of getting a top 5 pick that will turn into the generational pick that so many people are expecting the Flames to draft 2 of in each of the next 3 seasons?
Okay, lets push it out to the next season. Some of those players who have an extra year left are typically the next likely to be sold off.
Backlund
Frost
Lomberg
Andersson
Bean
Miromanov
Frost is not the guy you trade to further the rebuild. He's part of the rebuild, he'll be the veteran when drafted players start making the team. Backlund is most likely to retire a Flame. Andersson is the one guy to trade. It didn't have to happen at this trade deadline. There is desire to keep him around but from what I've read on this forum, they don't want to lock him in long term at a high price. He's likely sold off before next trade deadline.
Not much else that will get the Flames very much. Maybe Coleman if someone wants a player like him with more term.
The Flames didn't screw up this trade deadline by not selling off all their veterans. They didn't have the veterans to sell off. They did that the previous year when they got rid of Hanifin, Lindholm, Markstrom, Tanev, Tofolli and Zadorov. Some people seem to refuse to see that and think about the situation the Flames are in. They just want to see trades for the sake of seeing trades but those trades have to fit their very specific criteria.