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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I somewhat disagree, as while it's not directly trying to get better, when you aren't trading veterans who will not figure into your long term plans, you are hoping you get better with the influx of some young players.
Calgary needs to take some positive steps to get worse. It's the only way to truly get better long term.
By keeping Kadri and Coleman, Calgary is trying to make the playoffs, and that is trying to get better in the short term. Could they do more to getter better short term? Of course. But there is so much more they can do to get better long term.
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I would love to trade Kadri and Coleman as well and it makes the most sense to trade them. But if the returns aren't great and teams are calling on Frost, maybe they move him first. 8 forwards have 100 mins against elite competition on the Flames and Frost's number are not good. He plays tons of PP and gets #1 PP time and slots in a spot where the puck is on his stick. This typcally gets you more points than someone standing in front of the net. He has all of 7 seconds on the PK and ranks 2nd to Kadri in PP ice time. All this prime opportunity has resuted in a player who is on place for 40 points.
When I look into the numbers, Sharnagovich has played well against elite players and played more minutes against elite players, gets half the PP time and plays more on the PK. Slot him in Frost's spot and he performs much better IMO and his value would go from a negative value to a positive value.
Trade Frost and Ras is also a great option if the plan is to keep Coleman and Kadri until the demand in value is met. We would gain a lot long term and still maybe improve short term with Parekh coming back soon and Kuznetsov and Bruce deserving a role with this team move forward.
No matter where we finish in the standings, this season has seeen long term progress, especially on d with the kids taking minutes from the depth d and Bahl looking more and more like a top end shut down dman vs a 3rd pairing dman with no upside like some suggested going into the season.