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Originally Posted by Rhett44
I mean in a rebuild you aren't just trading pending UFAs. You are actively looking to trade vets who have value and making your roster younger.
Until the Flames trade players like Kadri and Coleman, you can't really say we have been doing that. Every single team in the league makes trades for pending UFAs if they say no to re signing, those are just moves you make.
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this literally describes every other trade Conroy has made.
I get that people want them to trade Kadri and Coleman for a ransom, but this isn't a video game. The value has to be there, the buyers have to be there. NHL GMs across the board have unfortunately been sitting on their hands for a very long time now (remember when the argument for a decentralized draft was "more trades"? Hahaha, good times). We just don't know what offers are out there, and given that Conroy has pulled the trigger whenever he felt the price was met (moving Toffoli a year early, moving Lindholm before the deadline, moving Markstrom with two years left), I doubt the offers have been all that good so far.