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Originally Posted by Goriders
In my mind the Flames don’t have many veterans worth trading anymore. Most of them are pretty old.
- Coleman
- Andersson
- Kadri
- Weegar
Outside of that you have younger guys you probably don’t want to trade:
- Bahl
- Wolf
- Coronato
- Honzek
- Parekh
- Gridin
- Klapka
- Pospisil
- Zary
Guys who for various reasons at this point are untradeable:
- Frost
- Farabee
- Huberdeau
- Backlund
- Cooley
- Sharangovich
And scrubs no one would probably ask about
- Bean
- Pachal
- Hanley
- Lomberg
- Kirkland
So not that many bullets left in the chamber to get 1st round picks. Maybe 3 or 4. If you pump all of them out this season what do you do next year?
Even if you get first round picks for the 4 appealing vets they are going to be in the top half of the draft. 16-32 range.
Flames are running out of bullets.
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I don't think we can get 1sts for all these players, but why hold out for 1sts?
We have to salary retention spots too. Need to use those wisely and we can take bad contracts back.
We may only end up with 2-3 1sts this year if we sell off a bunch of players, but we should be able to add 2nds and 3rds too.
It's pretty early to say this team is so bad that none of these guys will turn it around. We just need to lose for a bit longer so it's just not possible to make the playoffs no matter how well we play. We also probably need to make one early season trade. Rasmus is that guy IMO that could move now and leave a big hole in this team to lose enough games.