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Originally Posted by Wolven
A young, currently middle 6 RHS centre, with potential to get better? Yes, yes we do need to use assets to get that.
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.
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Retooling teams usually have something to retool around. Like 1st line players.