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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
With Ferland proving capable of producing as the 1st line RW, and Bennet/Janko looking to be breaking out and being on the upswing, the only real question mark in the top 9 is Backlunds status going forward.
I'm all for an upgrade if they can find it without creating a bunch of holes elsewhere. Otherwise just get the guy extended already.
Other than that my only wish is for the Flames to not bog down the 4th line with overpaid veterans. If they stick with Brouwer and don't buy him out, he's already in the mix, the other two spots should be filled out either from within (Mangiapane, Hrivic, Dube, Hathaway, Lazar, Klimchuk, Lomberg, etc) OR with cheaper veterans on short term deals if the younger guys can't cut it quite yet.
Love Stajan, but thank **** his contract is up finally. No sense replacing him with another older guy with another potentially terrible contract that we find ourselves regretting year after year.
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Throwing spaghettti against the wall here, but maybe our purported interest in Smith is tied to Backlund’s future. If we acquire Smith maybe it is tied to selling high on Backlund at the deadline. Not saying that Smith would be a direct replacement for Backlund, rather bring in Smith to not deplete our C depth while we move out Backlund for futures. Management would have to be confident that Janko is ready for increased duties.