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Originally Posted by traptor
I'm not under the impression that they've gone scorch earth at all and I don't think they're necessarily trying to lose. Conroy tried to make moves, but most of them didn't pan out.
They made the Frost + Farabee acquisition.
They tried to re-sign Vladar but he wanted more opportunity.
Allegedly they were close on a deal to send Rasmus out and bring Hague back but that fell through because Hague didn't want to come.
They went deep in trade talks for K'Ander Miller but the Canes had a big offer.
They made a seriously competitive offer to Lindgren but he went somewhere else.
Takes multiple parties to tango.
This team has been very competitive in 2/3 of those years. They could use a couple year to scrape bottom.
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Not sure Vladar is a sign that you are trying to compete.
There has been no serious reporting on the Hague rumour nor the Miller rumour you cite.
And a team that wants to compete would just have used some of their abundance of cap room to close the deal on Lindgren if that rumour is true. A team that wants to compete and has the draft picks and prospects that the Flames have by selling almost all of their good players and getting nothing back that can help them compete now would move those young assets and picks for players that help them compete now.
The reason they have not done that is because they are not actually trying to compete now and instead are getting rid of more vets than any team in the cap era has for picks and prospects.