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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
If moving 7 vets for picks and prospects was not enough to establish a different direction why would 3 more vets tip the scales in any meaningful way. The argument would survive, it would just change.
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The Flames actually haven't really got many prospects in those trades. That's actually one of my issues.
They decided to get mid 20 guys to fill these slots - in my opinion - to try and stay decent/ok
Sure 7 Vets went out, but they brough in 6 guys (+ Wolf) to replace them / attempt to replace and stay relevant
Frost (25), Farabee (26), Shags (25), Bahl (23), Okhotyuk (23), and Miromanov (26) all came back in trades
(You can also add in Kuzmenko but they later shipped him out so I'm cancelling the in and out off for simplicity)
The only two prospects they have received are Bruz (19) and Grushnikov (20)
For net picks they have added :
Three 1sts, One 2nd, three 3rds, and a 4th.
Not a bad haul, but honestly if you are trading SEVEN quality vets as you love to point out - It feels a little light when only 2 prospects came back (And only one was even a B prospect) and you only end up net 4 picks in the first 2 rounds over 3 seasons.
The reason is feels light is because they chose to get mid 20's guys back as well instead of more picks and prospects.
This is where people look and see more of a Rebiggle vs committed rebuild.
We could have not gotten any of those mid 20's guys, signed older FA's to 1-3 year deals to fill out the roster (or salary dumps but they are rarer nowadays) who we could then try to flip as their contracts expired after giving them ice time and opportunity to pump their worth, have a worse team for our own better pick, and have more picks and prospects .
I personally think our future would be looking a lot brighter over the next 5 years if this was the case.