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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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There absolutely has been reporting on the Hague and Miller stuff Dreger said more than once on barnburner if the Canes did not threaten the offer sheet the Flames were likely getting Miller. Rangers probably preferred to not trade in-division but had little choice once the offer sheet threat occurred.
I believe it was Friedman who reported that Hague not being willing to sign in Calgary was the reason the Andersson trade fell through.
I do think there has been attempts to improve this team through targeted players but when they fell through Conroy did not force anything.