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Originally Posted by ricardodw
If the Flames have to dump Brodie or Hamonic to play in the UFA market it will be a huge mistake.
Gio-Hanifin-brodie/Hamonic leaves the Flames in the Canucks category of Defense:
Elder/Tanev/Myers
After that Andersen-Valimaki-Stone is arguably the same as Stecher-Hughes-Hutton
Maybe Valimaki is a top-2/4 guy ... just the same as Hughes might the same.
The Flames advantage last season was that they had 4-dmen that could play in the top-2. Not a lot of teams that could do that.
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The Flames need to move one the d-men to to make payroll anyway.
And I don't think it's close to Vancouver bad. Myers is really bad, and has been for years. Tanev is OK but can't stay healthy. Edler is declining but OK and can't stay healthy.
GIo is a Norris winning d-man. Him and 5 slugs is likely better than anything the Canucks will throw out there.