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Originally Posted by Buff
I am in no way attacking you or your words here. I am quoting you because your post embodies a trend on CP... or maybe a long term standard is more like it.
Basically the Flames need better players. Better players get suggested and there are strong responses suggesting that all the better players are crap and the Flames would be better if they stayed away from those suggested.
Like, seriously. Cale Makar and Nathan MacKinnon could both be UFA and it gets reported that they're interested in going to the same team and some people here would be "No way! We don't want them" and come up with cons that probably don't even outweight the pros.
There is no perfect player and we aren't going to suddenly invent one. If someone like Barzal or Marner helps improve our club then shouldn't we be interested in what they could do for our team?
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It is not that simple.
The flames highest paid players are Huberdeau, Kadri, Weegar who are 32, 35, 32 next season and if they keep Andersson he will be entering that equation at 30 years old as well. If they end up giving Marner $14M per they are now paying a guy approaching 30 a huge amount when this team has missed the playoffs 3 years in a row and not really a piece or two away from being a cup contender.
Where this team is at currently it would be silly to give a UFA that is likely getting paid for what they have done with diminishing returns moving forward to try and get this current roster over the hump.
Adding a 21-25 year old and paying that guy top dollar does make sense for this team who is trying to turn over a core while remaining competitive. Adding more money and term to aging players doesn’t get this team to the cup