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Originally Posted by Redrum
He would have to prove he's at least a top line center for this to be a conversation. We don't need to be burning assets and boatloads of long term cap on yet another middle 6 forward.
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A young, currently middle 6 RHS centre, with potential to get better? Yes, yes we do need to use assets to get that.
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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Rebuilding teams don't make trades for players like that especially giving up futures.
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Except this isn't a rebuild. The team isn't burning to the ground, bottoming out for multiple years, and then hoping to climb out of the ashes of badness.
A re-tooling team that is trying to balance trading out the aging vets that they can, keeping the ones that they must, and having young talent come online and keep the team from bottoming out... that re-tooling team needs to make moves to get better without multiple top 5 or 1OA draft picks.
Cozens would have been a solid pick up for the Flames given the reality of the team not bottoming out this season. I appreciate Conroy's desire to keep Zary but I have a feeling this production increase for Cozens is not just a post-trade bump and that he is starting to show why he went #8OA in his draft. Time will tell.