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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
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.
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Yeah I dont think theyre trying to seriously compete either. But tthey're not going scorched earth. There's alot of room between the two.
The rumours were pretty substantive with reputable members close to the flames (Steinberg) and the top media insiders (friedman, dreger and serevalli) saying things. They were also deep in Cozens and Byram.
Lindgren proffered to play in thr US apparently. Same with Hague.
They did get players back though. Bahl, Sharangovich, Frost, Farabee and Miromanov (bust). That's 3 top 9 forwards and a top 4 D that they got back.