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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
My sense, and anyone can correct this if I'm mis-representing things, is that "team tank" wants to see the Flames more proactively strip the team down, by removing some of the well performing vets...both to maximize the return of those assets and so that their 1st can be a higher one, including to maximize the chances of landing McKenna this year.
I think that's basically it?
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Sounds like you’re on the track, but it seems to be a two sided coin. I hear some of what you’re saying, but I also hear a desire to avoid being two years down the road holding a hand of veteran players who have not achieved any post season success, and who would at the point likely be post peak value. Of course this rationale assumes that the Flames don’t make the playoffs over the course of a couple of seasons, but I hear this concern being as real in some posts as the sentiment to just give everyone over 30 a one way ticket to elsewhere in an effort to score some lottery windfall.
Other than the Frost/Farrabee deal the Flames have done little to nothing to suggest they aren’t future oriented, so there’s that, but there is a potential cost to simply remaining agnostic. If there has been no success over the next 2-3 years , and there are a number of veterans who are regressing I would imagine most on this board would question the team’s decisions.