Think we are going to get a Hanifin type return with Andersson's agent letting teams know ahead of time he won't be extending with them.
We need to hit on the first round picks we get for the veterans. The early returns on Gridin and Reschny look pretty good. If you hit on the first, the other pieces matter a lot less (ironically, Bahl and Brz are pretty good "other pieces" from those deals).
The Bouwmeester and Iginla trades look as bad as they do because those picks were used to select Poirier and Klimchuk. Wouldn't surprise me if that memory has ownership hesitant to let go of assets under contract for magic beans. But if instead of Poirier/Klimchuk, the Flames drafted Shea Theodore and Ryan Hartman, that changes the franchise's trajectory a fair bit in the Gaudreau/Monahan years .
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