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Originally Posted by Poison
And who do you feel on our current roster could take his spot on the second line and produce more consistently?
Answer: No one.
So if what everyone is saying is true and we get peanuts for him and in fact have to retain salary, what is the point?
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The point is that Matthew Tkachuk and Dave Rittich need to be paid. That's it. It's an unfortunate, less-than-ideal reality that Frolik needs to be traded, but just because a reality is sad doesn't stop it from being true.
And while you may feel that it is unlikely that any of Dube, Bennett, Mangiapane, or even Czarnik can take Frolik's role with success, it is probably true that by the time Frolik is 33 or 34, he will have declined and at least one of those players will have improved to the point where it is a substantially net-positive move by the Flames.