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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I would go so far as to argue that when Andersson gets traded (or Kadri), it will be like the load bearing wall keeping the roof up being knocked down.
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I think that's a really good analogy. Frighteningly good, actually, because I've seen it literally done.
I had a fool of a neighbour once who took out the telepost in the middle of his basement because it broke up the space in his rec room. When I saw it (after he sold the house but before anyone moved in), the whole main floor was sagging, all the kitchen cabinets were out of true, and one good snowfall would have been enough to collapse the roof and bring the whole place down. The only thing keeping the house up was a jack that the new owner put in to hold up the main floor beam until he could do proper repairs.
I think Weegar is the telepost holding up the Flames' D right now. Removing Andersson will weaken the whole structure; removing Weegar would collapse it. I sincerely hope they keep Weegar so Parekh can have an on-ice role model to help him learn to play the hard minutes against top-line opponents; and so the other young players can learn the NHL game in some kind of structured environment as opposed to a perennial dumpster fire.