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Originally Posted by The Cobra
This is a very good post and I can't disagree with any of it.
And while Conroy will trade UFA's to be that won't sign team friendly deals, I believe his mandate is to try and win as many games a year. as possible. Trading Kadri makes sense for the long term outlook of the team. But as long as he wants to stay, Calgary is willing to keep him until the last year of his deal.
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It's hard to see the mandate right now, IMO.
They've done almost nothing to improve, short of Frost/Farabee. And they've made moves for futures in most of their pending UFA trades.
There also seems to be resistance to going down to the studs, and appetite to be competitive to coincide with new arena.
I think this approach will leave for some dissatisfied owners at the end of the day, because resistance to move some of the diminishing assets may make it more painful (and longer) than it needed to be.