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Originally Posted by traptor
That's not entirely true that they did nothing to improve the team.
They brought in Frost and Farabee in a deal that they included a 2nd in.
They brought in Bahl in the Markstrom deal.
These are young but established pieces with a focus on improving the Flames.
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They brought in Frost and Farabee in exchange for Pelletier and Kuzmenko, with the 2nd to equalize the trade. The team got younger on that deal, and balanced out the roster by filling a huge hole at centre.
Bahl, as a piece for the present, doesn't even begin to compare to a starting goalie. The NHL roster was unquestionably worse with Wolf and Vladar in goal than with Markstrom and Wolf. They also got a 1st-round pick out of the deal.
Neither one of those were remotely ‘win now’ deals.