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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Still think this gets overblown. Players want to play for winners.

In the last 15 years guys like Frolik, Neal, Markstrom, Tanev, Coleman, Kadri, etc all signed here when they were top 5-10 players in their respective free agent classes.

When this team was competitive with a promising young core they had absolutely no issue attracting free agents. Even going back to the Iginla era they had no issue getting free agents to sign here.

Build a solid young core and you become attractive in free agency simple as that.

Florida was seen as one of the worst markets in the NHL for years, they drafted Ekblad, Huberdeau, Barkov and others and had a good young core and all of a sudden it became attractive and people pretend like that was always the case.

It’s the Calgary inferiority complex. Drives me crazy.