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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Ripping it down to the studs is not about who you trade, but what is left.
Calgary has presently 5 viable older players. The studs is not there yet.
The 2023-2024 Chicago Blackhawks had only Seth Jones left of viable decent older players, and they finally dumped him when they could. They had even previously traded Debrincat , who was a young player who had scored 41 goals at the age of 24.
That's tearing it down to the studs. The bigger difference is the Hawks did not try and resign Kane and Towes etc, they let them all walk. The Flames tried to resign Hanifin and Lindholm, they only traded them when they wouldn't accept what Conroy considered reasonable deals. But there was not any intention of the Flames at that time to tear it down to the studs. That has occurred only once the Fleams really had no choice.
Now the Flames may well be getting there. I expect they will be.
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Well they also had Taylor Hall, Nick Foligno, Tyler Johnson, Connor Murphy, Pete Mrazek, Corey Perry, Andreas Athanasieu, Jason Dickinson and Ryan Donato.
But if you do not count those 9 veterans they tore it down to the studs. Part of the effort to tear it down to the studs was trading two younger players for Hall and Foligno that year. Trading a draft pick for Corey Perry.
They also did not let Toews walk, he got long COVID.