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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The fact it wasn't even a thought is the issue though.
There was discussion that the Flames should have been thinking about trading Markstrom, Hanifin, Andersson, Tanev, etc at the 2023 trade deadline when teams were overpaying and they were out of it, but their were rumors at the time the Flames were a little late to the party.
Then they made a bunch of those trades in season in 2024 and got great returns on Lindholm, and pretty average returns on Hanifin, Tanev, and Zadorov. So I can understand not shopping Andersson during the 23-24 season as you have enough pieces on the market.
Then in the 2024 offseason they did the right thing by being proactive with Markstrom and Mangiapane deals, but feels like they left value on the table with Andersson by not shopping him at the 2024 draft / free agency period.
And I do get not wanting to go scorched earth rebuild, and not wanting to trade everyone early, and in the case of somebody like Hanifin I actually understood trying to re-sign him and keep him until the last minute since he was young enough that an 8 year deal made sense.
But the Andersson scenario seemed pretty clear to me. You already had RH shot Weegar locked up long term. You had Brzustewicz in a trade, and then Parekh drafted 9th OV. And it seemed pretty clear the Flames wouldn't want to give Andersson $9M x 8 years on a contract that started at 30 years old.
Hopefully they can still get a team to overpay but feels like it's going to be tough if he's only going to be willing to re-sign in a couple of places.
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You are welcome to your opinion, and I like the way you approach things because it's generally less whiney ... but I don't agree at all with your first statement.
Of course it was a thought.
They make asset management calls on all their impending players. They saw value in keeping Andersson a year longer.