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Conroy made a comment in regards to the Curran deal about needing to stack prospects by age and by expected time for being in the NHL.
I think that this deal is as much part of that philosophy in that they have a number of prospects in the Battaglia age bracket but not a lot that are a couple of years older.

I think the other thing that that this trade means is that the Flames do not think that Stromgren is an NHL player. He would have gotten more time up if they thought he was, and Othmann basically fills the spot that he would have taken.

Also allows them to move on from Coleman in the summer because Othmann should be ready to step in as a third line winger.